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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-08
THE OPIUM MEASURE.

There is a general misunderstanding
of these Islands, to prevent the intro
duction of opium within territorial
lines, in the event of annexation. It
may be explained in this way. The
Constitution of the United States pro-
Vides that Congress shall regulate
commerce among the several States"
When several States passed laws for
bidding the importation of liquor with
in the State lines, it was claimed by
those engaged in the liquor trade that
this prohibition amounted to a regu-
lation of commerce between the States,
because liquor was an article of trade
and commerce.
The Supreme Court of the United
States, in a number of test cases held
that no State could prevent the pur-
chase and importation of any article
by persons residing in the State,
but that after the article had been re-
ceived in the State, any regulations
might be lawfully passed fOrbidding
or limiting it's sale.
A note from a law journal is as
follows: "The earliest result in South
Carolina of the decision of the United
States Supreme Court on the dispen-
sary case is the hurried closing of the
original-package shops. These shops
had prepared for an adverse decision
by reduction in stock, and their pro-
Drietors will continue a part of their
trade in the state from points without
the state. Under the decision they can
ship. from outside the state, their
goods to their customers within the
state upon orders which they may re-
ceive or take. without fear of having
the goods seized and without the neces-
sity of having samples analysed by
the states chemist. Liquors for prl-
vate consumption may come into the
state by the barrel, case, jug or bottle,
and this freedom of interstate COM
merce is expected by the South Caro-
lima papers to be more harmful to
the dispensary than are the blind
tigers The dispensary has been sus-
tanned by the court as to it's vital pro-
visions. but the declared personal
liberty of choice to buy liquors else
where is blow at the profit feature
which has assumed first Importance
with the managers of the dispensary
when it claimed a monopoly OF the
traffic"
The legislation proposed by the At
torney- General very sensibly recog-
nizes the prospect of annexation and
recognizes as we'll the fact that when
it takes place, anyone in the Islands
may import opium for himself. He
may be forbidden to sell it, or use 1t,
but he can import it.
If the earnest members OF the
Woman's Board of Missions would
deal with the facts as they are, we
believe some way may be discovered
for Iessening the terrible effects of this
drug.
The Supreme Court of the United
States may be very naughty, and the
Constitution of the United States may
be a wicked document. but the Cour'
is supreme. and the Constitution is the
law of the land. If there is annexation
our laws must give way to it.
A law regulating the sale and use
of opium would be valid, in the event
of annexation. Would it not be wiser
to enact such law now. rather thar
,,,oi+ until annexation takes place, and
political changes prevent any regula
tions?
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-08

Among the arrivals from Maui and
Hawaii ports on the Kinau yesterday
morning were the following: I. +.
Lansing, Geo. Ross, F. NJ. Wakefield,
II. NJ. Whitney, Rev. S. L. Desha, ]. R.
Wilson, Rev. G.. K. Wilder and wife,
Geo. w. Hayselden, Geo. ROdick, w.
H. McInerny, L. A. Diokey, A. Hane-
BERG
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-08

This papers special edition contain
ing all the matter relating to enter
tainment of the General Anderson
brigade, U. S. A, and printed in cOlOrs,
is now ready.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-08
character

This papers special edition contain
ing all the matter relating to enter
tainment of the General Anderson
brigade, u. S. A, and printed in colOrs,
is now ready.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-08
A TumOr Formed
Finally 1t Broke Inwardly
and Discharged
Trouble Began With Dyspepsia
and impure Blood
Thorough Course of Hoods Sarsa-
pariIia Completely Cures.

Thorough Course of Hoods Sarsa-
pariIIa Completely Cures.
There is danger in impure blood.
Disease and suffering are surely COM
ing to those who neglect this threaten
ing symptom. Read this:
''Gilliam, Missouri.
% c. I. Hood & Co, Lowell, Mass:
GentIemen:-My troubles began with
nervous headaches, which would last
me for two or three days. The doctors
pronounced my trouble dyspepsia, but
they could not do anything for me, and
advised a change of location. AT the age
of 50 tumor formed on my spine, which
Was Very Painful
but did not rise or discharge. The doctor
thought best to cut it out, but I objected.
It finally broke and discharged great
deal. The doctors said they could do
nothing for it. Then the tumor began to
rise inwardly and discharge. read much
about cures by Hoods SarsaparilIa and
thought 1 would try it. Before l had
finished taking one bottle 1 was much
relieved. 1 continued the use of Hoods
Sarsaparilla, and after taking II bottles I
was entirely cured. 1 am now well, have
a good appetite and feel that I owe my
life to Hoods Sarsaparilla." w. D. FORE.
God s S ps1ilia
Is the best-in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for So.
Hoods DiEIc act tremendously with
AAOONA - AAAo Hoods Sarsaparilla. pc
HOBRON DRUG COMPANY,
Wholesale Agents.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-08

The protest entered by the Spanish
Consul against the permission given
by our Government to the United
States, TO use this port in the trans
portation of troops to Manila, might
have been expected. It places on
record the refusal of the Spanish Gov
errment to assent TO it. The Consuls
of other nations will probably make
no similar protests, because the ma
tions they represent leave Hawaii to
preserve or modify her neutrality
The object of the notice served by
the Spanish Consul is mainly done, we
suspect, to fix upon our Government a
charge of a violation of neutrality, so
that hereafter Spain may make claim
for damages against US, just as Amer
lea made a claim for violation of
neutrality against Great Britain in
the Alabama" case, and recovered an
enormous amount of money for it.
If such a claim is made, it will be
satisfactorily disposed of by the United
States on the conclusion of peace.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-08
~

Aside from the regular six sizes we
carry in stock, we can order any style
of safe required and have it divided to
suit the purchaser.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-08

Every part is made by the VICTOR
SAFE & LOCK CO., from the raw ma
teriaI and are thoroughly tested before
and after construction.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-08
49,

All VICTOR SAFES are made of the
hest materials known to the trade and
only skilled workmen are employed.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-08
49,

In our Office we are using one of the
regular make, and for convenience it
cannot be touched by any safe we have
ever seen.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-08
EGGS

Those using EGG WHITE SOAP will
not suffer from chapped face or hands.
SAMPLE. Cake given free on appli-
cation Come early as the supply of
handsome pictures is limited.
WE ARE SOLE AGENTS.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-08

One of the best recommendations for
these safes is that other safe COM
panies often use the VICTOR SAFE as
a criterion as being not only burglar,
but fire-proOf.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-08
OF F

Perfumed with delicate odor from
French Flowers. Leaves a sweet re-
fined odor made from the sweetest ma
terials obtainable. The grandest soap
for the toilet and complexion.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-08

While we are ready to abandon our
neutrality, it is not clear that we
have actually done so, by act at least,
up to the present moment.
The entertainment of troops was not
strictly speaking a violation Of neutral
ity. They received no arms or equip
ment here. Lunches, free soda, free
rides are not forbidden.
The violation of neutrality, if there
was any. laid in permitting the ship
ment of coal. But the powers do not
agree in defining the character OF
coal. in war times Great Britain and
the United States hold that it may or
may not, be contraband. If coal IS to
be directly used for war purposes 1t Is
| contraband. So according to American
| and English construction the coal
taken here by the ships is contraband.
On the other hand France and Russia
do not regard it as cOntraband. Sothere
is no well settled international law on
the subject and Hawaii may follow
France and Russia without violating
neutrality. Writers on international
law regret these conflicting views, and
recommend a common agreement.
Whether, at the present moment,
these Islands are really ''the base OF
operations against Manila, within the
definition of international law, is an
open question. But it may be closed
question any moment.
In the present unsettled condition OF
| international law. it is question
whether or not Hawaii. SO far, has
violated it's provisions. That she is
willing to do so if it will aid the
United States, no one doubts.
There is a singular provision in the
Hawaiian treaty with Spain. 1t is as
follows:
eff from a concurrence of unfor-
tunate circumstances. differences be
tween the contracting parties shall
cause an interruption of the relations
of friendship between them, and that
having exhausted the means of an
amtcable and conciliatory discussion
the objects of their mutual desire
should not have been completely at
tanned, the arbitration of third
power, equally the friend of both, shall
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-08
W HIT

Nothing else like it. Makes the skin
white and as smooth as velvet. Equal
to any rs cent soap on the market.
Single Cake for 10 cents.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-08

We invite inspection.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-08

Hoods pills act tremendously with
AAOONa > AAAo Hoods Sarsaparilla. 25c.
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,J. T. Lipscomb.

k The above named gentleman is an nounca7 in today's GRAPHe as a candidate for County Tax Assessor, subject to the action of the Demo cratic primaries on May the 7th.
 Mr. Lipscomb is a citizen of Boli- var township, and is a successful and prominent planter near Plum Bayou.
 The subject of this sketch was born in 1862 and has been a citiz n of Jefferson county for the last 20 years. He was educated at Collier vile, Tenn. and also received a thorough business education in Led den's Commercial College at Mem phis, from which he graduated
 After his graduation he was for several years connected with Thos. H. Allen S Co.,, in Memphis, and left this firm to come to Arkansas, set ting near Plum Bayou, where he has since been engaged in farming and agricultural pursuits.
 His father Was an active Confed- crate soldier and was a member of Forests redoubtable cavalry. While MT. Lipscomb was not old enough to actively participate in the evil war, he is, by ties that bind, in thorough sympathy with the Con- federate soldier.
 On account of a late family be reavement. Mr Lipscomb has not been able up 10 the present to make an active campaign of the county, and was therefore not in attendance upod the late meeting of the County Central Committee, but from this time until the close of the primaries he expecis to make an active cam paign.
 Mr. Lipscomb is gentleman off education, energy and refinement, and is thoroughly qualified for the position to which he aspires. Should he be nominated and elected, we feel assured that hesvould make the people a most co4 ent and industrious public so~vk
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Irnmiaration.


 The original immigration bill bhore congress last summer was considerably modified in it's passage through the sen ate. For one thing the amendment which prohibited aliens from accepting work in this country and then passing back and forth between this and their own land in the intervals of their occu- patton has been stricken out. That amendment was aimed especially at Mexioans and Canadians. For another thing the senate struck out the provi- sion that immigrants over 16 must both read and write either English or some other language It will be time enough to insert such a provision as that when we require that all our native born American citizens shall read and write their own language before they can vote. Furthermore, under the modifica- tions made by the senate, illiterate par ents and grandparents of immigrants may be admitted when satisfactory as- surance is given that their relatives W Il take care of them. Illiterate wives may come in too Under the senate amend ment persons over 16 who can read will be admitted. These changes in the direc- tion of less severity in immigrant re- strietion are wise. The experience of mankind in all ages shows that severe and extreme laws always defeat them selves. Our ancestors were all immi- grants into America at one time or an- other, and more of them than their de- soendants would like to confess were unable to either read or write and came in the steerage to boot.
 It will be quite sufficient to exclude from our country persons who are pau pers, criminals or drunkards or those af- fiicted with an infectious or fatal dis ease. It will be sufficient if ablebodied immigrants over 16 can read without requiring them also to know how to write. More attention ought to be paid to the moral status of those who wish to become American citizens They should bear a record that they have been re- speetable persons at home
 There is still plenty of room in our country for robust, honest, intelligent immigrants The trouble is, most for eigners that land here, not knowing where to go, settle down or try to in the ports where they land, thus causing a congestion in the labor markets of these ports. Forty per cent of the immi- grants arriving at Atlantic ports remain in New England and Pennsylvania, chiefly in New York city, Philadelphia and Boston. Let those who are trying to keep them out devise some plan for help ing them and scattering them through tho thinly settled parts of this broad land.
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remer Nareotles and stimulants.

Fewer Narcotics and stimalants'
 .Tbese tbree-morphine, chloral, CO., caine. mainly morphine-are the triple feature in the great wave of narcotic inebriety that has rolled over this land in the last 40 years, writes Dr. J. b. Mattison in The North American ke- view. He now finds that the wave has. snent itself and that the ebb tide has be-. gun. The causes that are contributing to what Dr. Mattison justly calls thls glad end" are various For one thing. the medical profession themselves are at last awakened to the dangers Of pre- seribing the drugs named. Cocaine was used for years recklessly and with terri ble results under the mistaken impress sion that it was a harmless narcotic. Not till some of the most gifted and skillful members of the medical profession them selves fell victims to cocaine dld doc tors become alive to the peril ill its use.
 Another cause as potent as any is the employment of electricity as remedial agent. Dr. Mattison pronounces the gal yanic current especially a "power against pain. It is safe to suppose that as time goes on and as the benefcent pow CT of electricity is better understood it will still further drive out the deadly drugs which merely paralyze the per eeption of pain instead of stopping the pain itself.
 While the use of morphine and other narcotic drugs is undoubtedly on the wane we have the cheerful assurance from statistics that alcoholic drunken ness is likewise steadily diminishing. The faithful figures show that in pro portion to the population there are less wine, whisky and even beer consumed than there were 20 years ago, One req son for this may be the popular belief that beer has been drugged and doctored with foreign substances to realize great CT profit on it till it has become un- wholesome. Certainly many beer drink CTS do not find it so palatable as they formerly did Whisky distillers say there is no longer money to be made in their business because of the diminished consumption.
 These cheering signs indicate that the race is growing healthier aud finer, ap- preaching a stage in it's development where it does not crave the coarse and fiery stimulants, the deadening, crude narcotics of the old times
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MAYOR OFFICE.

PINE BLUFF, ARK, Feb. 9, 1898, A, J, Stewart Esq, Chief of Police, City.
 My DEAR SIR-Yours of the 23rd inst, rendering your resignation as Chief of Police of this city, for req sons stated, has been received and duly considered by me.
 In reply you will permit me first to express nay regrets that your ne cessiUes are such as to cause you to take this step, and thence, to indi- cate to you the fact of my being dis pleased at having to part with so valuable an officer as you have made the city.
 While I do not believe the little time you would have to spend away from your post of duty to make a canvass among people by whom you are so well and faYorabIy known, could in any materiel way interfere with the duties and requirements of your, office or in any manner invoke criticism from tbe just and fair minded; nevertheless I can but ap, preciate your very thoughtful con. sideration for the city's interests, and to applaud you as well, for your expressed convictions respecting the duties of a public servant, es- peeially, one holding so important an office as that of Chief of Police of a city, which position I shall take occasion herein to say you have fill ed most faithfully and efficiently for the past three years.
 AS the Democratic primaries be- fore which you will submit your claims for nomination will not be held before May Eth, and believing that thirty days will afford you am pie time in which to make active canvass, I would request, unless it be averse to your own views and wishes, that you remain in office un- til the end of the city's fiscal year, April 11th, next, when I will ap- point some one to succeed you.
 Again expressing my regrets and wishing you success in your higher aspirations, l beg to remain, yours sincerely, D. c. BELL, Mayor.
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The necessity for getting matters set tied and a territorial government in running order in Alaska is immediate There will be in the next few months a thousand matters requiring the full machinery of courts and forts alike to properly deal with them. There should be additional military posts established at once and surveys made for feasible routes through the territory, besides tho hurrying to their destination of the food supplies required. PhiIanthropie Amer jeans who have more money than they know what to do with-some of those, for instance, who spend $100, 900 on a fancy ball-should see to the establish ment in Alaska of schools, hospitals and churches without delay, even if to do so they must put off for a few days tho trip to the Mediterranean on their private yacht to escape the rough winds of March. The American people and their government must understand that in Alaska and it's future We have what is goi1 to be the biggest thing we haYo had to 5ndle since tho civil war.
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Lattiner TriaIs.

Sept 10. 1897, strikers in the ccal region Of Pennsylvania attempted to march from West Hazleton to Lattimer to induce fellow workmen in the Latti- mer mines to leave their employment. The only weapon the strikers carried was an American flag, so far as the tes- timony shows. Edward Jones, chief of police at West Hazleton, ordered them to go around the city and not march through it. They obeyed. He testifes that they were "a little loud at first, but soon cooled down and afterward were orderly enough.
 As they started on the road to Lat timer, Sheriff James Martin and company of armed assistants appeared in the road and stopped them. The sheriff had a pistol in his hand, which he pointed at the strikers while he talked 10 them. He snapped it twice, and the third time it went off. This seems 20 have been the signal for a gen. eral firing on the part of the deputies. Over 20 strikers were killed, while 40 more were wounded. The strikers offered no bodily violence to any one. They crowded around Sheriff Martin.
 The sheriff's aids belong to wealthy and influential families of the neigh borhood Judge Woodward, who tries tho case, belongs to lone of the old est American families, " and he is de- seribed as being wealthy and digni- fled, The strikeIS on the other hand, were of tho DO oJrest laboring class, many of them ignorant of the English language. The above facts have been brought out in court.
 Sheriff Martin and his aids were in- dicted by tho grand jury on the charge of manslaughter. It is probable that their trial, now in progress at Wilkes. barre, will continue long time.
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Portraits of Lincoln.

In connection with the observance of Lincoln birthday an unusual number of portraits of his strange, rugged face and figure have appeared this year. Grace of form and beauty of figure, like Robert E. Lee, Lincoln had not, yet the fascination in his countenance is recog- nized by all. Walt Whitman studied his face moro intently perhaps than any other who knew Lincoln personally, and he has left it on record that no painter, sculptor or photographer ever caught the lineaments of tho real man. It is often noted that no two pictures of the war president look alike. One there is in Miss Tarbell's collection, like ness taken in his youth, which seems so different from all the rest that one can scarcely believe it his, although it is youched for by undoubted authority.
 Here is what Walt Whitman said of tho difficulty of catching a real likeness of Lincoln:
 Probably the reader has seen physiognoinies -often old farmers, sea captains and such that, behind their homeliness or even ugli- ness, held superior points so subtle yet so pal pablo, making the real life of their faces al most as impossible to depict as wild perfume or fruit tasto or passionate tone of the lov- ing voice. And such was Lincolns face-the peculiar color, the lines of it, the eyes, mouth, expression. Of technical beauty it had noth- ing, but to the eye of a great artist it furnish ed rare study-a feast, fascination The current portraits are all failures-most of them
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HON. SAM M. TAYLOR, of Pine Bluff, in spite ofstrong solicitation, has definitely decided not to become a candidate for Congress from this district against Hon. Bass Little. Mr. Taylor is a strong man, Q gifted orator and sound on all the prin- ciples enunciated in the Chicago platform, but the News comments his decision. Mr. Little is doing splendid service for his district, IS giving general satisfaction and there is not the slightest need for a change. Hot Springs Be1cs.