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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-02

I Turrill, w Thompson, ii
| Thompson, E Thompson, -
] Thompson, Thomas,
/ Thompson, r
! Van Zeebroch, w Van Dorm, Z
! % Van Giesen, ] II
Wills. G. II Weatherbee, ] B
| Wright, A 90 CD
| West, G. p Woods, II S
Williams, G Wallace, C (2)
| Wright, II (2) Willer, E 90
| Welch, H Washington,
| Williams, G r Williams,
Wagner. F (2) Wilson, A W
Wagner, E Williams, H
Wright, J Walker, A
Warn, G. Williams, j r
Wallace, J % Wilson, j
Wallace, ] (2) Wiley, J w
Wilberton, F Wood, S
Young, E B
REGISTRY BUSINESS.
Satonen, F Schmid, H
PARCELS POST.
Kimbal, T
LADIES.
Allen, NJ, Miss
Brown, NJ l, Miss
Campbell, A, Mrs Cummins, Rosie
Clark, ], Mrs Clark, c w, Mrs
Campton, G., Fanny Cooper, G H. Mrs
Daucett, A G, Mrs Donnell, L, Miss
Den, NJ Miss
Fernans, Miss Franks, Mrs
Greene, S E, Mrs
Holmes, E c, Miss Holmes, E G, Miss
Harbart, L, Miss Higgins, Ane
Irwings, K, Miss Jergenson J, Miss
Johnson, Miss l. Johnson, Est
Kiefe, T, Mrs
Lazarus, Mary Lott, M A, Mrs
Lincoln, A, Mrs Lyons, n, Miss
Louis, Nancy Long, A, Mrs
Moore, DR. c w Mccartney, Mrs
Mrs Margham, Hannah
Moore, A, Mrs Merritt, n G, Mrs
Mossman, r, Mrs
Pendergast, E K, Pratt, G
Mrs
Ross, M K, Mrs Richardson, B, Mrs
Rose, M J, Mrs
Spencer, NJ, Mrs Stubblebeen, Mrs
Stevens. J. Mrs Stevens, Mary
Stewart, J, Mrs Spaulding, E, Miss
Starbuck, Mrs Smith, L, Mrs
Todd, D E, Miss
Werg, E, Miss Walker, b G, Mrs
Wilson, G, Mrs
Parties inquiring for letters In the
above list will please ask for "Adver-
tised Letters"
JOSEPH M. DAT,
Postmaster General.
General Post Office, Honolulu, July
81 1897
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-08-17
Must Be an AstrOlOGer.

Ignorant people think that an as
tronomer is also an astrologer. Sir John
Herschel once received letter asking
him to cast the writer horoscope. An
other letter-writer requested the dis
tinguished astronomer to consult the
stars and answer these two questions:
"Shan I marry?" and "Have I seen
her?'' Maria Mitchell records in her
journal that on an Atlantic steamer an
1rishwoman, learning that she was an
astronomer, asked her what she could
tell. Miss Mitchell answered that she
could tell when the moon would rise,
when the sun would rise, and when
there would be an eclipse of the moon or
of the sun. "Oh!" exclaimed the disap-
pointed woman, in a tone which plain
~ said: Els that all?" She expected
to have her fortune told. Once in a
town not far from Boston, during o
very mild winter, a lad, driving a team,
called out to Miss Mitchell on the street,
saying: II want to ask you question,
Miss Mitchell!" She stopped. He
asked: "Shall we lose our ice crop this
winter" -Youth's Companion.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-08-17
P,TH AND POINT.

-"I'm so grateful to Mr.. Chump-
leigh for sending me his photograph"
'*Why, thought you hated him."
"Yes, but just think, he might have
brought t."-Brooklyn Life.
-She-''How would you punctuate
the following: Bank of England notes
of various values were blown along the
street by the wind?'" II think
would make dash after the notes.
Household Words.
Merely a Suggestion.-Bridget-
"Sure, ma'am, I wud call your atten-
shun to the beautiful sunset out av
the kitchen winder." That's
nothing, Bridget. You ought to see it
rise some morning"
-Typewriter-"I am rapid enough,
and understand business forms all
right, but I must admit that I cannot!
SPELL" Business Man-"You won't do,
then, even at the price. I can't spell,
either" Journal.
-"Any fool can write a novel; said
Griggle; you can make things come
out just as you want them to- very
true" replied Dixon; ''but you must
admit that there are some fools who do
not write novels. ''-Boston Transcript.
Dr. Samuel S. Wesley being pres
ent during a performance of his fine
anthem, ''Ascribe unto, the Lord the
basses sang their recitative, ''Noses
have they, and smell not" in such a
vulgar, nasal tone, when Wesley re-
marked, in his most sarcastic MANNER:
mo, they keep their noses to sing
through"
A Delicate Accommodation
you say that this is to be wedding
PRESENT." asked the clever salesman
in the china store. "No, I didn't say
anything of the kind" replied the man
who was making the purchase. "And
I don't see that it makes any difference
to you.'' 'Not the slightest" was the
reply. IL merely thought you might
like to have us take off this price-mark
and paste on another with a higher
figure on t''-Washington Star.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-08-17
Bad for Epicures.

It frequently happens that those
epicures who daily with the toothsome
pate de foie gras are afflicted with gas
trio troubles to such an extent that life
becomes burden and they would will
ingly fill themselves with husks, after
the manner of the prodigal, if they
could secure relief thereby. This deli
cacy is made of the enlarged livers of
geese, and in order to aggravate the
affection of the goose and get larger
livers, it is the custom to feed the bird
quantities of a certain variety of sorrel
which contains an excess of binoxalate
of potash. This chemical gets into the
goose's liver, causes hypertrophy of
that organ, and is the prime cause Of
the epicure's stomach ache.-Chicago
Tribune.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-08-17
sharply to the two men in the De upper.

sharPiy 10 the Two men IN the upper
room. >1 IL !. Is =: 4. 20 se -. II
''Tve got warrant for John Kill
grow"-Philip, recognized the voice as
that OF the man who had asked the way
OF Mrs. Duncan-'and TIL have to
trouble ye, Mr.. Duncan" 49,
At the mention of his name the old
mountaineer started and would have
thrown himself out of the other win
dow if Thorndyke had not promptly
seized him. Don't be afraid-they
can't touch you. Sit down and listen"
" "An' who's this John Keelgrow that
ye're speerin' after in my house?
There's naebody wi that name bides
here"
II know all bout that, and I know.
too. that this same John Kilgrow's in
this here house now. don't want to
make no trouble for We, but reckon
ye know what all it means when the
law says for ye to come down."
"Show yer warrant"
+'That's for Kilgrow.v.
'Wha kens that? Yell no gang in
this door till we show me the bit pa
per-"
''Mr. Duncan, I'm dep'ty United
States ma'shal; reckon ye'd better
stand to one side and lemme do nv
duty"
deputy or no deputy, yen no win
Until this house forby the askin'' or a
weel-drawn search-warrant" - there
was the sound of an opening door
'Elsie, BARN. TESS me the auld rifle"
The paving of the horses at the gate
filled the silence until the door closed
and Duncan spoke again: moo, then,
We limmers, gle we bath fair warnin.'
I'm on my ain door-stane, an yell show
yerwarrantor come on at yer ain peril"
Thorndyke peered between the Stats
of the closed shutters, and saw the two
men fall back a few steps to hold
council of war. While they were talk
ing, another horseman came in sight at
the top of the hill, and a moment later
Protheroe rode up to the gate and dis
mounted. He nodded to the intruders
as he passed them. and Thorndyke was
surprised to see them hurry to their
horses and ride away toward ALA
coochee. The hasty retreat was ex-
planned when Protheroe came up the
walk.
''Good evening, MIR. Duncan. Are you
| out cunning for our friends?"
''Na, ma, then," said Duncan, in tones
of expostulation; ''ye'd no be eempli-
catin' auld Jamie Duncan for resistin'
the officers O. the law, would ye, Rob-
hie?"
what officers? Those fellows?
They're no more officers than you are.
What were they trying to do?'
Duncan took the engineer into the
house, and his reply was lost to the lis
teners in the room above. Thorndyke
turned to the old mountaineer. "You
see, row, Mr.. Kilgrow, what these men
will do. Your safety lies in keeping
out of their reach. Come. with me and
I'll let you out the back way"
When Kilgrow had gone, Thorndyke
went down to the sitting-room, but
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neither there, nor afterwards at supper,
did Duncan or Protheroe refer to the
unwelcome visitors; and Thorndyke
knew that the wary Scot had succeeded
in satisfying Protheroe's curiosity
without duplicating Kilgrow.
The young engineer brought letters
for Philip, one of which was reserved to
he read in the privacy of the attic bed
room. It was from Helen, and Philips
conscience bit him when he tore it open.
Then he smiled at his misgivings as he
read through the closely-written pages.
1.-THE Mortons were here to dinner last
night" she wrote, land they wanted to
know all about you; where you were and
what you were doing. You know best how
little we could tell them, but they thought
1t odd that you should prefer the wilds of
Alabama In summer to Lenox or>Newport.
They have taken a cottage just below us
Tor the season, and Derrick Morton has
brought his yacht around from Mount
DESERT won't say Bar Harbor. That is
gossip OF the time and place, and could
fill pages with it, but suppose you care for
none OF these things now. And really
don't know just what you do care for; you
seem farther away in Alabama than you
would II you were in Europe; but fancy
lAdI - OSCduSe we are SO utterly unf0u1s1ar
with your present surroundings. - 49,.
One thing I must tell you, however. A
few OF us here-Derrick Morton, the Van
Ruyter girls. Arthur Haxtell and his
brother Tom, Dorothy and John Berkeley,
and one nore-have undertaken to redeem
the fr1volities of our corner of Newport by
forming a reading circle. We read none
but new authors, and then we pick them to
pieces with refinement Of criticism that
would humble the most conceited beginner.
IT he could only hear us i think it's pity
that some sof them can't; don't you? I
wish you could be here to help us. believe
you would make distressingly acute In
quisitor, and the fact that you once tried
your hands authorship would lend d pea.
5cultar zest to your censure, IL 1t be truethar
the best critics are the unsuccessful
writer's Apropos, what ever became OF
your much-rejected manuscript? / should
like to submit It as the effort OF one OF the
submerged. VI Isl S SS5s. II
IT suppose you have no present thought
of coming back to civilization. From what
you say in your letters infer that you are
enjoying yourself, after some primitive
i fashion, and. better than all else, that your
health isimproYing. Because can believe
the latter, can continue to spare you
while the need exists; ard since the separa-
& ton has to be-, II Is better hat we should
bear it5!contentedly.I should beasorr to
shaVu the good effect OF DR. Pereyir's pre-.
scription marred by any repining OF mine.
and as 90 longsas YOU fed that the out-o door
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-08-17

life IS helping you, hope you will not let
sny strained sense of your duty to your
mother or to me make you abridge It, We
shall get along famously without our preux
cneVal1er, and you are not to suppose that
we are obliged to go about uncared for be-,
cause you happen to be buried in the forests
Of Alabama.
Write often, If you feel like it, but don't
let 1t become BORE There is nothing more
dreadful than having to write to some one
fect1onately, as always, HELEN.
''P. ST. have been invited to join party
on Derrick Morton's yacht, and If you don't
hear from me again for two or three weeks,
you'll know I have accepted and that post
offices are not to be had for the asking
Philip put the letter down with
smile that was more than half sneer.
When one sets out to make himself the
advocate of an unworthy cause, mental
short-sightedness stands ready to dis
tort and confuse the judgment; and in
the case of a letter, the dispassionate
Journalism of written language lends
itself easily to inferential misconstruc-
ton.
"How could ever have fancied that
she had any warmth or depth apart
from the intellectual side of her char
acter?' he asked himself. I'm sure I
don't know, any more than know why
1 always took it for granted that we
were divinely appointed to be the COM
ponent parts of thatmysterious creation
which the marriage service declares to
be one person, but which all experience
says is still more than ever two. Could
Elsie Duncan write such a letter as
that to the man she loves? Would she
turn neat phrases and Bah! the
comparison is absurd! And yet, on the
other hand, it isn't fair to blame Helen
because I don't happen to be the one
man in the universe who is capable of
calling out the best there is in her; and
I don't blame her. She may find the
right man yet; it's barely possible this
cruise in Morton's yacht will turn out
to be more nearly divine appointment
than an agreement made by our fathers
while we were in swaddling-clothes."
Thus Philip, in a plausible attempt
to Justify himself. How should he know
that the cool and dispassionate letter
was only part and parcel of the hard
task Helen had set herself in the begin
ming? How was he to guess that she
had steadily resolved from the first to
say nothing that would tempt him to
turn back to his hurt? BY what inner
prescience should he have been enabled
to read between the lines the passionate
yearning that was so resolutely effaced
in the written words? AS he stood at
his window looking out into the calm
stiffness of the moonlit night, what
good angel was there to tell him that at
another window in far-off New England
the writer of that letter knelt with wet
eyes, beseeching the Merciful One to
protect and preserve the absent lover i?
There was none; nor was there any in
ward monitor to hint that propinquity,
the charm of an innocent face, and a
simple outpouring of womanly SYM
pathy had united with his own moral
and physical weakness to turn him
aside from the plain way of rectitude
and honor.
ITO BE Continued
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-08-17

"Capt. AS COmpany."

An English journal tells an amusing
anecdote concerning wealthy Irish
lady whose summer house is situated
near a garrison town in Ireland. A few
days ago she sent an invitation to Capt.
A. to take tea with her, saying that
1.-The pleasure of Capt. As company
is respectfully requested" etc. To her
establishment she received by an order
" the following note: Enlisted men
John and Smith have been detailed to do
guard duty, but the remainder of Capt.
As company accept with pleasure
Mrs. N $ polite invitation Chica-
go Tribune. nc RI - !
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-08-17

emit, l merely want you to keep out of
their way. Have nothing to say to
strangers and don't pay any attention
to any messages from me or from any
one else unless Duncan or Elsie brings.
them to you. Does anybody besides
the Duncans know about your place up
here in the Pocket ~ - ~"
II reckon they's mighty few"
$50 much the better. Go back there
and stay quietly until you hear from
me. It may take me month, or even
longer. to find out what want to know
in Allacoochee.''' 5s- 45. .ss.>< ~ I
Kilgrow understood that he was dis
missed, but he hesitated, laboring with
statement that he did not know how
to make. Thorndyke tried to helpzhin.
'Was there anything else 2" he asked. &
Seem like thar ort to be; bout you
uns' pay hain't got nothin on the
face O. the yeth--'''' e 5s {. ...
Never mind about that; if we win
there'll be money enough for both Of
us. . * ss55s 3#@ #
Kilgrow went dumb again, try ing to
find words to measure his graf itude.s
Before they came therewas q gathering
OF hoofs in the road, and then crunch
ing footsteps on the graveled walk
leading up to the. house. There was ~
dormer wind ow in ,Thorndy ke''s room
and its gable projected above the front;
door 5of the farmhous The sash was
up and the sounds from below came
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-08-17
FIFTY ODD WINTERS AN MORE.
Tell We Of what was thinkin,? Now really

Tell ye Of what I was thif1kin'? Now really
there amt much 70 tell; y ~
rs settin' here lookin' at Mandy. an think
in of-thinkin' Dwell,
Us thinkin' we'd lived here together for
fifty good winters, an more,
An neither, like some could mention, has
grown to think 'tother a bore;
An 1 thought O. that fangle, divorces,
where people that chank at tn bit
Go to law with all manner of stories, for
gettin' their hitchin' line split;
An thought how we'd worked in tn har-
ness lovin' each other tn more,
For KNOWN that neither was perfect, an
KNOWN what 'tother one bore.
Yes. Mandy an in tn forties started out
to travel this road,
An we didn't start out without KNOWN
that each one had shouldered a load:
Nor we didn't start out on tn journey q
smirkin' and thinkin' we'd done
The cunnin'est thing in creation. with a
future all honey an fun:
An we didn't start out in mansion, with
a mortgage some twenty feet long;
But we shouldered our load an looked
happy, an mingled some work with
our song.
'Thinkin' of? Well. 1 was thinkin' that
Mandy, who used to be fair,
Is fairer now with her wrinkles, than she
Is in that picture up there;
Fairer now in tn autumn, with her tresses
all drifted with snow,
Than she was as pink an white maiden,
some fifty odd winters ago.
An that wasn't all by jugful, somehow
there's picture see
OF me when first saw Mandy, an Mandy
when first she saw me;
An then as time Journeys onward. can
see her one night at tn bars,
AS passed by with greetin', an her eyes
wandered off to tn stars:
An then tn picture gets jumbled, an all
can see Is her face
Crowned by heavenly halo, a. God given
message of grace
An after that life was in earnest, an its
burdens were not over light,
But we both gave a hand to tn towrope, an
measured our hearts with the fight.
So tn years passed On-they were merry,
with sometimes good bit of sad,
But we never thought much of complain
in, an we couldn't found time if we
had.
Thinkin' of? Well, I was thinkin' that
Mandy, who always was fair,
Was never so sweet as this minute, with
tn snow drifts laid in her hair:
An rs thinkin'-I's thinkin' that maybe if
was to go tn long road
Ere tn Lord saw fit to call Mandy, 'twere
pity to double her load;
An then + was thinkin how maybe that
Mandy might journey ahead,
An leave me alone fl my sorrow, alone
with my beautiful dead;
An then couldn't help praying that may
be tn good Lord would see
1t was best that He call US together, my
Mandy, my sweetheart an me.
Walter M. Hazeltine, in Good House.
keeping.
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Properly Equipped.

r Baby Spirit Cup in Heaven)-So I
must 60 down to earth and get born,
must I? What am I to be, man or a
woman :? ;,% ~..:..,. q. ~.
Guardian Angelic me see. You
have many talents, have you not?
!. .:.&''Y Yes, indeed; ever so many. I can
keep track Of 40 things atonce, have my
thoughts on one thing, and do dozen
other things correctly, sleep with one
eye open, and on waking up at any
time have full possession of all my. fac
sulties in an Instant
5s : = lis vel. on shall be awoman.rr
-. IN Z Weekly. sszsi
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-08-17

Startling Facts Developed by the
Enumeration Lately Compiled.
The general results of the Russian
census taking are now known. They
present no specially startling facts,
but some of decided interest. They
show Russia to be, as it was of course
known to be, by far the most populous
country in Europe. Ietitis not so popu-
lous as to overbalance all the rest of
the continent, nor even a combination
of three or four other states. The no.
ton that Russia is so great in popula-
ton and resources as to menace the
remainder of Europe with Cossack rule
is seen to be an unsubstantial dream.
The population of Russia proper is a
trifle more than 94,0OO,OOO. That is
little more than that of Germany and
Austria-Hungary, and much less than
that Of Great Britain, France and Ger
many. If we add the 100000 of Po-
land, the 100000 of Caucasia and the
100000 of Finland, the total is still
much less than that of Great Britain,
France and Germany, or of the triple
alliance states. The entire empire, in
Guiding the 100000 of Siberia and Sag
halien, the 100000 of the Steppes, the
100000 of Central Asia and the few
thousands settled in Khiva and Box
hara, foots up grand total of 1879, 211,-
113. That is enormous. But it does not
nearly equal that of the other five great
powers of Europe, or that of any four of
them, while if, instead of numbers,
quality be considered, the inferiority
of Russia is much more marked.
Comparing these figures with those
of the not very authentic census of 1851
it is seen that the population of the en-
pire has about doubled within so years.
The total in 1851 was 65,743,7 $50. Leav-
ing out Central Asia, which has been
acquired since 1851, it is to be observed
that the population of the steppes, of
ably more than doubled, that of Poland
has somewhat less than doubled, and
that of European Russia and Finland
has much less than doubled Russia is,
therefore, increasing as an Asiatic more
than as European power The popu-
lation is chiefly rural, despite marked
growth of towns and cities in recent
years. There is only one city, St. Peters
burg, with over 100000 inhabitants;
only two others, Moscow and Warsaw,
with more than 100000; only three
others with over 100000, and only 10
more with over 1OO, 900 each Those be-
tween 100000 and $4,000 number IS and
between $4,000 and $4,000 SO. The popu-
lation is most dense, or least sparse, in.
Poland, there amounting to more than
80 to the square mile. This is thin
and scattered population compared
with other countries. In European Rus
STA proper it is only eight and in eau
casia SO to the square mile. Nowhere
else in the empire is it as much as seven,
and in the empire as a whole it is only
rs to the square mile. Women are
more numerous than men by nearly
three per cent. in European Russia and
Finland, and men are the more numer-
Gus elsewhere. In the empire as
whole the two sexes exactly balance
NJ " Tribune
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-08-17
. - -.'3.7ig 80 40 ~ -, =
Z Wiling to Take Less.

See here, young man." said the stern
parent, = have satisfied myself that
you want my daughter because she is to
have million in her own right.
Just to show you that I'm not
mercenary, and to make future family
relations more pleasant, I'll =connpro-
mise here and now at Is cents On the dol
lar. - Detroit Free Press. ..s Is
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-08-17
{ Sudden Deaths

. THERE'S only one sudd death among
women t. eight a1nnng men,. d.