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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-18
REALIZING THE SITUATION.

The majority of those who have ad-
yocated annexation do not understand
it's far reaching effects and it's in
estimable value to the people who will
in the coming century make up the
population of the Islands. The major
ity of those who have advocated it,
have done so from a personal selfish
motive, which is natural and proper
enough.
But the new order of things will
benefit all classes and conditions
rather than one class. Annexation is
an act of equalization. 1t creates a
condition in which the tendency is
towards the general good.
Many, who are now shouting in joy,
may before many months have passed
away, regret annexation because it
does not bring them the personal bene-
fits they have expected while the Por-
tuguese, the Natives and the Asiatics
may and probably will get unusual
benefits from it.
AS these Islands are now absolutely
a part OF the American territory, and
will now remain so, we may as we'll
come to an understanding of the stu
alton at once, and get rid of our ways
of thinking under the Monarchy, so
far as they got us into the belief that
we were a very important little COM
munity and needed more consideration
than other communities. Hereafter,
the voice of this little territory will
be drowned in the mighty roar of the
voices of f0rty-five great States. This
will disappear as a true pride in the
one great Nation appears, whether it
brings prosperity or adversely to the
individual Annexation means a
powerful moral movement that many
of the late annexationists did not I'M
derstand. 1t may result in the rapid
advance of the Portuguese and the
Asiatics, in prosperity and civilization
here. Great moral movements do not
distinguish between races. There are
here nearly $4,000 Asiatics who are
to expand under democratic influences,
even if they have no electoral fran
chise. In a very general sense demo-
cracy tends towards "the greatest
good to the greatest number while the
practical doctrine prevalent here for
twenty years has been, 'the greatest
good to the few" This undemOcratic
doctrine has not been deliberately es-
tablished, but is the outgrowth of con-
ditions. Democracy abhors contract"
labor Our prevailing system favored
it. Annexation suddenly arrests this
policy, and will put the relations of
labor and capital here on the same
basis it stands on every square foot
States.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-18
BARREN CHILDHOOD.

Miss Allen said in an add -ess. a few
days ago, before the members of the
Summer School and referring to child
life, that people are too solemn in
| life There is not enough play.
| Solemnity, and severity spoil the life
of the child and stifie its sweetness. %
Colonel Parker also alluded, the IRE
| ceding day, to the bareeaness of child
life.
For generations back, God-fearing
men ana women sternly declined any
education that suggested the pleasure
| of the senses. The present life was
regarded as a gloomy cell from which
sinful man was to be suddenly taken
beyond the grave to the Judgment
seat, and there meet his everlasting
reward or punishment. The study Of
nature, the study of the beautiful in
forest, in mountain, in flower and
plant, the use of time in becoming
familiar with the prodigaI riches of the
eartn in color, form and beauty, was
regarded as only a temptation to in
dulge in luxury and irreligiOn. In
stead of filing the land with simple
and inexpensive homes, richly adOrn-
ed with plants and flowers, and with
instead of filling the humble home with
healthy music and laughter, to be had
without price, the severest austerity
dominated. The barrenness and mono
tony of home life, especially in the
New England States, drove the young
men to the cities, and the distant
prairies, where they accumulated for
tunes which they could not enjoy, be-
cause only the very highest education
can secure the enjoyment of wealth.
These exiles from the barren and
solemn homes of New England built
up communities with the industry of
ants, but life had no sweetness and
light
One may travel now for a thousand
leagues over the settled parts Of the
interior of our Mainland, over fer
tile soil, and find the average home
sterile of all floral adornment, and the
children as ignorant of what is beau
tiful and refining in nature, as if man
had only recently come upon the
earth, and were ignorant of the vast
resources that laid under his eyes.
A valuer of farms for the purposes
of loans, said that he had travelled in
buggy many thousands of miles
through the rich farms of the Central
States, and his explanation of the
tendency of the young to drift into
the cities was that the people in the
cities had found out how to amuse
themselves, while the people in the
rural districts had not.
These Apostles of Sweetness and
Light are opening up to the children
of the coming generation, vast fields
of profit, and refined pleasure, in point
ing out the way, by which they may
be taken to them with ease and sim
pIicity.
The next great step in our civiliza-
ton will be the building of beauti-
full homes, not created by wealth, but
with the educated fingers of those who
are industrious and cOntented.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-18

The Rev. DR.. Serene Bishops views,
presented in another column, indicate
the rapid change in sentiment among
the PrOtestants towards the growth
OF Roman Catholicism. This is due,
to the broader education of men and
women, in these later days, and the
intercourse of members of the reli-
gious denominations with each other.
Every man, whatever his religion
may be, must respect and admire the
devotion of the two French priests
who stood on the deck Of the Bour-
gogne as she rapidly settled down to
her doom, and without thought of self
preservation, gave absolution to the
passengers that asked for it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-18
NOTICE.

In pursuance of the above Order of
Court, I will sell at Public Auction to
the highest bidder, at the Police Sta
ton, Kalakaua Hale, on Monday, the
LIST day of August, A. D. 1898, the
Schooner "Mokihana," her tackle, ap-
parel, and furniture, at II o'clock noon
of said day.
CHARLES F. CHTLLTNGWORTH
Deputy Marshal, Republic of Hawaii.
1912
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-18
NOTICE OF CHANGE.

The Hair Dressing Department of
the Woman's Exchange is no longer
in charge of Mrs. Dickson. The present
manager, recently from San Fran
cisco, sOIicits the patronage Of the
Honolulu ladies and will do sham
pooling, hair dressing, glove and hat
cleaning from a. m. to 5 p. N. Tel.
$50.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-18
Nothing else like it. Makes the skin
white and as smooth as velvet. Equal
to any 25 cent soap on the market.
Single Cake for 10 cents.
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, 1898-07-18

These sentiments openly expressed
a month ago, would have been regard
ed by the late anneXationists, as
treason to the policy of annexation.
But annexation now is a word without
force, because the fact is accomplish
ed and, thank God, cannot be undone,
even if every man on the Islands re-
sisted it.
The masters of the situation here,
are in Washington, and represent the
general sentiment of the American
people. We become the smallest toad
in the pontical puddle. And the soon
er we recognize this not very welcome.
but important fact, the better it will
be for our peace of mind.
The older men living, and the read
ers of American history will remem-
Der the time when, in 1S61-'66, the
people of California began to get tired
of their union with the Federal States,
and, in 1913, the people of New Eng
land said, in convention, some very
ugly and reasonable things about it,
and made faces at Old Glory. We may
feel, hereafter, that we are not pro-
perly cared for and even forget the
enormous benefits conferred by union.
But the wise and thoughtful ones will
not forget that union means in the
long run the greatest good to the
greatest number. That is quite enough.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-18
HOLL|STERDRUGCO.
Well, Well, Well!

1t never rains but it pours, and bles-
sings never come singly.
ANNEXATION, THE GLORIOUS
VICTORY OF SANTIAGO and-Iast,
but not least-the wonderfully low
prices THE HAWAIIAN IRON
FENCE co. are quoting on all kinds
Of fence and ornamental iron and wire
work.
A Beautiful all WROUGHT IRON
(no wood Settee, feet long, only
$3.50. Call in and see sample, and
get our catalogue and prices and save
money.
The HqN0ii0l Iron Fence Go.
J. n. ANKROM.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-18

The transition from a local and mar
row policy, one that prOfusely preach
ed against Asiatic immigration, but
opened the door wide whenever there
was any money in Asiatic labor, now
gives way to a fixed and general ma
tional policy, which takes no account
of our local wants.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-18
CANNIBAL1sM IN AUSTRALIA.

While the authoress (of "A Flower Hunter in QueenslandD saw nothing but charm in the beauty of the tropical forests-except as regarded the snakes and the stinging insects and the chance of meeting a casual crocodile-sfe found, alas, no good thing among the Australian natives. It is strange to think that they are cannibals still, even close to our towns. At one place where Mrs. Rowan stayed the natives had killed and eaten Chinaman only a few days before her visit. Another place "they told me-" she says, that on that very afternoon high revelry had been going on in the native camp as they feasted off the roasted remains of an old woman, who had been allowed, against their usual custom, to die a natural death the day before" Nor are thase savages pleasant neighbors. A settler at whose house Mrs. Rowan
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-18
MEN AND PETTIcoATs.

The tyrant man seems to have been rather unfairly handled at the meeting of the Rational Dress league last week. Lady Harberton expressed her wonder at his stupidity in being unable to look at knickerbockers and divided skirts from a common sense standpoint, and went on to attribute his hostility to these garments to the survival of tribal influence" The Tribal influence" it seems, leads men to regard women as creatures whose place Is by the f1reside, and who are doomed to a life of inactivity. In or der to keep women in this state of in- activity, man insists on dressing them in petticoats. Possibly the tribal in fuence" has the effects here attributed to it, although have heard of tribes in which the women do all the work and the men sit about in state of in- activity, even if they do not wear pet ticoats. But really it is little hard on the inferior being to saddle him with responsibility for the way women dress emselves.-London Truth.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-18
Et,ramc1ul.
The Stock Market.

New York, May 17.-To-day's ad- vances in the prices of stocks were the result of movement among profess sional operators to renew the upward course of prices. These operators ar gued that the market had undergone a fair degree of reaction during yesterday and the latter part of last week. The reaction had invited a fair shoft inter- est and had wiped out the weak holders on the long side of speculation. This represented an improvement in the technical conditions of the market. The days trading started off with the ad vantage of an improvement in Lon- don, where prices of American securi- ties were advanced sharp fraction all around. There was also some buying for London at the opening here, but London afterwards turned seller, when prices had risen.
 There are number of stocks which enjoy the special support of friends and inside interests, and these imparted firmness by sympathy to the rest of the market. The combination of these cir cumstances made the bulls feel war ranted in pushing up the prices of their favorites without waiting for more def mite developments of the naval situa- tion in West Indian waters. There was no evidence of any large outside inter- est, and any slackening of the profess sional demand precipitated dullness. The absence of outside demand was in dicated clearly also by the way in which prices fell away in the realizing movement in the final hour.
 The days extreme advances were curtailed from F to % per cent. by this movement, but net advances of between and points for all the principal stocks still remained. Tobacco led the list in point of activity and vibrated very feverishly all day over a range of nearly points. Enormous single blocks of this stock figured in the dealing, both in the downward movement and on the recovery. The stock shows a net gain of 2A per cent. The bull campaign was accompanied by the usual crop of ru- mors, one of which reported Spain as sueing for peace.
 The rates for time money went lower to per cent. for sixty days, 31s per cent. for ninety days and 4 per cent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-18

for four months. The abundant supply of money in the country and prospect of trade balance for year in our fa- vor of over $600,000,O00 are taken much account of by those who study the speculative outlook. A plethora of money seeking employment and con- tinued foreign demand for our products means an era of higher prices and of speculative and industrial activity. The weeks exports of general merchandise from New York were $11,3S2, ,1O3 com pared with S6,S76.S73 last week. In view of these figures, coupled with some buying of stocks for London account it is not surprising that the price of demand sterling bills should have lost one-half cent of yesterdays gain.
 The bond market was quiet, but prices are higher all around The total sales were $1650,000.
 United States new fours fell 1s and the lives 4 in the bid price. There was a sale of the new fours registered at an advance of 31s per cent. over the last sale, which was several weeks since.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-18
NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL AND COURIER, WE

the satacombs at Rome as an early Christian symbol. This form does not seem to have changed materially for quite thousand years, as is shown by the BayeuX tapestry.
 Some very primitive kinds of anchors are in use at the present day in differ ent parts of the world, and a study of their construction may throw some light on the evolution of the modern anchor.
 An anchor which came from Japan consists of a natural forked branch of a tree, slightly improved artificially, so as to make a hook. Two round bars are fixed at right angles to the shank, and to these two ordinary beach pebbles are tied The length of the anchor is feet 3 inches; the width across the hook 3 inches, and across the transverse bars, foot inches. The stones are from 5 to 6 inches in diameter and 2 inches thick. Another anchor was in use quite recently in the Aran Islands, off the west coast of Galway. It is con- structed of a sloping bar at each side and three crossbars, forming figure not unlike the isosceles triangle in Eu- clid's pons asnorum. The lowest of the three cross-bars is of square section, and is fixed by iron spikes at each side to the sloping pieces so as to prevent them spreading outward. The stone, which acts as a weight, is clipped by means of the two side pieces, being held tightly by two spliced rings of rope passing under the upper cross bars. These cross-bars are of round trv, md 0t at, ctIn r, yc keeping the rope rings from slipping upward. The cable is fixed to the mid- dle of the lowest transverse bar, and is carried up on one side of the stone, then between the two sloping boards, and finally through a loop fixed to a hole at the top of the anchor. The boards at each side are foot 1924 inch es long, and the stone 1 foot inches long.
 It may seem strange that such prin- itive-1ooking contrivances should con- tinue to be used by fishermen who have a full knowledge of every modern ap- pliance connected with navigation and are easily lost. This is a serious mat ter when the anchor is of iron and of
 some value: but if it is constructed like those described, there is not much | difficulty or expense in replacing it. A beach stone and few bits of wood are always at hand, and the skilled work manship required to fashion them into a very serviceable anchor is but small. Thus it is that, under certain condi- tions, primitive appliances must always hold their own against modern inven- tions. When, as often happens, a newly | introduced contrivance gets out of or | der, it generally involves much great | CT loss of time and more expense to re- place it than if 1t were of simpler con- | struction and capable of being made | by an ordinary warkman out of mate
 rials easily procurable on the spot.
 Highly civilized man has much to learn | from his prehistoric ancestors, and from uncultured races still existing, as | to how he should act in an emergency when deprived of his usual appliances 1 From the Reliquary and Illustrated | Archaeologist.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-18
STATE TREATMENTS ASSOCIATION.
Captain c. H. O'Neil of New Haven
 Elected President.

Captain c. H. O'Neil of New Haven
 Elected President.
 Stamford, Conn, May 17.-At the f1f- teenth annual convention of the Con- necticut State Firemen's association, which convened at the town hall this afternoon for two days session the following officers were elected at the business meeting: President, c. H. O'Neil of New Haven; vice president, George S. Pitt of Middletown; secre- tary, John S. Jones of Westport; treas urer, s. c. snagg of Waterbury; dele gate to national convention, George Bowman of Stamford; county vice presidents, Holland, J. H. Hepburn; Windham, F. s. Young; New London, c. s. Ockford; Middlesex, J. H. O'Brien; Litchfield. M. M. Travis; Hartford, J. R. Davis; New Haven, j. c. Thompson; Fairfield, D. W. Harford. There are upwards of 300 delegates in attendance and tonight they are being most hos- pitably entertained by the local fire men. Tomorrow there will be an ex- hibition of fire apparatus by the manu- facturers in the early morning, and the convention will reconvene at 10 a. m. for its closing session.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-18
A w1ND-Bu1LT DYKE OF SAND.


 An interesting illustration of natural engineering is the we'll known heavy dyke on the Holland coast, which was built by the winds themselves. The sand formed between the jetties becom- ing dry in sunny weather, and the sur face blown ashore on the wind blowing in that direction, it was desired to build a strong dyke to connect with the sand dunes, and this was accomplished by settling in the sand, in rows about one foot apart, tufts of dune sea grass near by. The tufts thus placed, con- sisting simply of little handfuls of grass, were put each one, into a cavity dug out with the hands, the tuft being set into this and the sands pressed around.
 The whole surface of the dry, sandy beach above high tide was covered with this plantation, and just back of it, at the highest point of tEs existing sandy area, one or two rows of reeds were set in the sand, their tops cut off and the stalks left standing about four feet above the sand--the latter, drifting along over the surface, catching and in one day almost burying the tufts of grass and standing up one foot along the row of reeds; then another planta- tion being made and another, a mas sive dyke was thus built up to the height of the adjoining dyke. In high storm tides the waves eat into the toe of the slope and pull down the sand, but by the same process Of building the dyke is again restored to its former size.-From Invention.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-18
PRIMITIVE ANCHORS.

The Earliest Forms Have But One
 Fluke-An Old Shape Used in Gall
 way.
 There appear to be two ideas which have led up to the invention of the modern anchor-O the idea of attach ing the vessel by means of a rope or chain to weight sufficiently heavy to keep the vessel from moving when the weight has sunk to the bottom of the sea; and CD, the idea of using a hook instead of Cor in addition to) the weight so as to catch in the bottom. The Eng fish word anchor is practically the same as the Latin ancora and the Greek angura, meaning "that which has an angle" from the root ank, bent. The earliest anchors made on the hook principle probably only had one f1uke instead of two. In the Sussex Archael, Coli,'' there is an illustration of what has been surmised to be an anchor made out of the natural forked branch of tree. It has found with an ancient British canoe at Burpham, Sussex. There is in the British museum an in- teresting leaden anchor with two flukes bearing a Greek inscription. Its date is about 50 B. C., and it was found off the coast of Cyrene. The invention of the anchor with two fiukes is attribut- ed by Pausanius to Midas, by Pliny to Eupalamas, and by Strabo to Anachar- sis. Diodorus Siculus states that the first anchors were wooden tubes filled with lead, while another classical writ CT says that before the introduction of metal anchors Jumps of stone with hole through the middle for the attach ment of the cable were used. The form of the anchors used by the Greeks and Romans is well known from repre- sentations on Trajan's Column and in
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-18

stayed at Somerset, Cape York-the only house for many miles in that part of Queensland-can still arm a hum dred men, if necessary, and guns and pistols hang on the walls, ready load ed in case of sudden attack. This gen. tleman gave the authoress some Span ish dollars, cemented together with coral, which had been recovered from the wreck of warship, which, early in this century, ran ashore on a reef near the coast, and whose crew were killed and eaten by the natives. Of such trag- ic memories Mrs. Rowan heard even more in New Zealand where almost every hill is the site of an old pah; ev- cry mountain, headland, rock, and is- land has some history of it's own-some grim tale of savage barbarity or pa- thetic story of love and courage.-- London Daily News.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-18
DEATH OF JOHN A. MUNsoN.


 The death of John A. Munson, well known resident of North Haven, occur red at his home in that place at four o'clock yesterday afternoon. MT. Nun son had been in poor health for about two years. His death was due to heart trouble. He was veteran of the War of the Rebellion, having served In the Twenty-seventh c. V. About forty years ago he was a member of the New Haven police force. He had large cir cle of friends in this city and leaves a wife, one son and daughter. He was brother of S. M. Munson, the well known pie baker of this city. He was a member of Admiral Foote post, G. A. R., and of Hiram lodge No. 1, F. and A. M. He served as tyler of Hiram lodge for a number of years.
 The funeral services will be held at 2:3o o'clock Friday afternoon in Admir- al Post hall. The Rev. MT. Lathrop of North Haven will off1ciate.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-18
BAD EITHER WAY.

Gladys-Don't go, George! Don't leave me! Don't run the risk of losing your life and leaving me to mourn for you ali the rest of my days. How can endure the anxiety, knowing that you are in danger!
 George-There, darling, don't worry. It's all right. I'm going into the com missary department.
 Gladys-Oh, George! That's even worse! How can I ever marry a cook? Chicago Daily News.