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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-09-19
On Board the "Grant."
tAndrew Marker, in Idaho Falls TImes).

| (AndreW Marker, In ldnho Fails Tlmes)..
On the 18th of July, 1899, the
Idahos were ordered in from the
trenches south of Manila, where
for four long months, in blister
ing heat and violent rains, they
had held the lines against the
beleaguering foe. On the goth
of July they went aboard the
transport Grant, and on the 31st
just a year precisely from the
day they landed on Luzon island
to aid in the conquest of Manila,
the good ship Grant flung her
homeward pennant to the breeze
and the foam from her bows ano
began her long voyage to the
United States.
The voyage from Manila to
Nagasaki was good deal more
more pleasant than we had APP.
pretended. The usually rough
waters of the VIGOROUSLY bolster
GUS China sea we found, for once,
as tranquil as baby's slumber,
her dark blue bosom scarcely
ruffied by the frothy front of a
breaker, and SO, few of the boys
were troubled with that terrible
bette noir to the sea-going land
lubber, the nauseous NAL de mer.
Two days out from Manila we
had a burial at sea. The serg-
cant major of the Wyoming in
fantry died and was mustered
into service of the Great Officer
Over All with the impressive
burial service of the M. E. disci-
pline, Chaplain Stevenson of the
Idahos repeating a few words of
consolation from the text, "When
the Sea Shall Give Up Her
Dead" The corpse was wrap
ped in an American flag and,
after the brief service was con-
cluded, taps were sounded and
the body committed to the deep.
On the following night another
sad accident occurred on board.
A regular army hospital steward,
who was sick and insane and on
his way home from Manila, Slip
ped his mornings and the guard
who attended him, and sprang
over the rail into the sea. The
ship was stopped, and the cap
tain's dingy was manned and
lowered, and by the aid of the
Grants searchlight, the surface
of the dark waters was thorough
ly searched. But after an hours
vaiu endeavor, the boat was re-
called and the soldier was left to
his lonely resting place of ocean
waste and sad sea waves.
~ 4 FL
9th, we neared the entrance of
the harbor of Nagasaki, and saw,
meanwhile, the precipitous cliffs
from which history says some
Christian missionaries were
hurled long ago and dashed to
pieces on the rocky spines below.
In the harbor we were stopped
by the Japanese sanitary com
missioners, and after the shin
had been inspected by them, we
came to anchor in the offing OPP
pOSlUS Ine Town.
Hardly had the propellers
ceased to vibrate, when the shin
was literally bombarded by in
Vulnerable sampans, which swept
down upon US as suddenly as
though they had been shot from
subterranean regions of gnomes,
and which, during the remainder
of our stay, constantly beleaguer-
ed the ship. their excited occu-
prints offering for sale every con-
ceivable article under heaven.
The crafty Sampan fellows
knew. from previous experience,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-09-19

Dulk lar dDONS llio OlOuuo eeiN'
mists of the morning, and look
ing far out to sea, the tallest
mountain in Japan.
On the night of August 18th
we came to anchor in the bay OF
of Yokohama. and the next
morning went alongside the pier.
The troops were marched into
the city in company formation,
headed by the Idaho band, and
all dressed in new, bright blue
uniforms without arms. They
were given an enthusiastic well
come and reception by the Amer
lean ladies of the town and quite
splendidly entertained in a large
tent that had been erected, and
other preparations made for
their especial benefit. Delicious
refreshments, iced tea and lem
onade were served, and through
out our stay. the utmost care and
solicitous attention by these pat
riotic women.
Yokohama is the largest sea-
port in Japan, having grown
from an insignificant fishing vii
lage in 1859 to a bustling, pros
porous city of 80, 900 inhabitants,
and great commercial impor-
lance. The streets, both in the
native and foreign quarters, are
well paved, lighted with gas, and
lined with richly-stocked shops
and warehouses. There are a
large number of Christian
churches, newspapers, banks,
hospitals, immense hotels and
beautiful public gardens. Geo.
graphically, it has three divis-
ions, commonly styled the "Set-
tlement," bluff" and Native
town. The Settlement" is the
scene of foreign activity almost
entirely and in it are located the
principal hotels, banks, post
office, custom house, prefecture,
consultes, churches, newspapers,
offices of large transportation,
express and telegraph compan-
les, etc.
From Yokohama many of the
boys took a flying trip to the his
torical city of Toxic, or, Tokyo,
which is situated about % miles
from Yokohama, and connecte d
with the latter city by a double
track and thirty trains per day.
The fare, first class, is forty.
seven sen, or about 25 cents in
American money. Toxic is the
capitol of Japan and has many
handsome and imposing state
buildings, colleges and public in
Situations. The Mikado has his
imperial reservation in a portion
of the city, fenced in by a moat
and a formidable stone wall, and
it is very difficult to approach.
AT every portcullis, guards with
drawn swords stand "at atten.
ton" and the vulgar canaille
may not enter therein without a
commission from heaven or some
high and mighty potentate. But
one can see the devine Buddah
without a pass and innumerable
lesser gods, jinns and josses,
world without end, done in cop
per, bronze and stone, and shrin-
ed in temples and Fantastic and
grotesque as the weird imagin-
ings of Aubrey Beardsley. So
with these and innumerable 9TH
er interesting sights, we satiated
our curiosity and spent our mon
ey and deferred our intended
visit to the Mikado's dominion.
much to that monarch's NORTH
cation and chaigrin, we have no
doubt.
After we had been in port two
days at Yokohama, an illeged
case of smallpox was discovered
on board and we were immedi.
ately put in quarantine. The
ship was run out to the quaran-
tine station, and was kept there
for two DAVIS under tho uallou
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-09-19
Our Government and the Philippine Islands,
TLEoN Calhoun

the suffering that human beings
are capable of by unjust laws
and dishonest officers. Wher
their continued appeals to the
mother government we're found
to be totally unvailing, they cas-
off their old government ant
formed new one. Before they
did so, however, they thought il
consistent with right and justice
that they set out the reasons Of
their action, which they did in 9
Bill of Rights, and a Declaration
of Independence. That memoir,
able document contained these
words 1--WE hold these these
truths to be self-evident; that all
men are created equal; that they
are endowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable rights,
that among these are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness.
That to secure these govern.
ments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed that
whenever any form of govern
ment becomes destructive to
these ends, it is the right of the
people to alter or abolish its y y
When long train of abuses and
nsurpations, pursuing invariably
the same object, evinces a design
to reduce them under absolute
despotism; it is their right. it is
their duty, to throw off such
government. *** He has erected
a multitude of new Offices, and
sent hither swarms officers to
harass our people, and eat out
their substance. ##* He has com
bined, with others, to subject us
TO q jurisdiction foreign to our
constitution, and unacknowledg-
ed by our laws; giving his assent
to their acts of pretended legis-
lation. For imposing taxes on
us without our consent. For
taking away our charters. ***
Altering our form of govern
ment. *** For suspending our
own legislatures, and declaring
themselves invested with power
to legislate for us in all cases
whatsoever"
And our forefathers declared
for doing all that King George
had forfeited his right to be their
governor; and rebelled. The
Constitution was formed to give
the people the rights claimed by
them as their due. and to make
1T impossible for any one in the
future to subject them to the
wrongs they had heretofore
undergone.
Ii seems so strange to me that
II all men were created equal in
1775 when it was us who were
being wronged that in 1899 men
have so changed in their crea-
ton, that it is just and right to
subject them to the same wrongs
that our forefathers fought seven
long years of bloody war to re-
dress. But that is the Republi-
cans liberal construction of the
Constitution.
Governments derived their
powers by the consent of the
governed in 1775. The Constitu-
ton is construed differently now.
1t was wrong in 1775 to erect
new offices and fill them with ir-
responsible non-residents, but in
1899 it is declared that the people
of the Philippines are incapable
of self government, and the
United States must send men to
be their officers.
1t was wrong in 1775 to subject
us to a jurisdiction foreign to us
and our Constitution, but in 1899
it is perfectly right More Re
publican construction of that
whalebone Constitution.
1t was wrong for another ma
ton to alter our form of govern
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-09-19

that the men on board Uncle
Sans transports always have
money and that the whole ontfit
would soon be going ashore. sc
the whole blessed crew kept the
ship under steady fire and when
a man was detected on the gang
plank waiting to go ashore, the
Sampans in ever direction would
skitter over the surface of the
water like SO many water bugs
and there would be free-for-all
scramble for that passenger. AS
there is no dock in Nagasaki, il
was a gala day for them when
the boys were given shore leave,
and each man was was taxed ten
sen for his ride ashore in q
Sampan.
In the harbor at Nagasaki was
anchored ships from the four
quarters of the globe. The Ital-
ian gunboat Htna dipped their
colors gracefully to us as we
passed, and near her was anch-
ored monstrous Russian liner,
loaded to the gunwales with con-
victs destined for the desolate
of Siberia. So crowded and i'll
thy were they that the odor OF
the ship was perceptible some
distance. The Grant lay in the
harbor two days taking on coal.
During that time the boys were
allowed to go ashore, and the
whole outfit were hot-footing il
over the island in wild endevor
to see in two days all the beauti-
full and picturesque sights Japan
had to display.
OF course, we were not able to
see much of this wonderful
country in the short time at our
disposal. The panorama of the
picturesque and the beautiful
Japan is inexhaustible aud it is
really a more enchanting land
than even Hern with his bewitch-
ing pen has portrayed. The YER
dure of the vegetation is peren-
NAL and in the dainty little val
leys-each as pretty as the fabl-
ed Valley of Avilion, that are
everywhere nestled as numer-
ously among the hills as troughs
in the ocean waves-there are
enchanting groves of palms,
ferns, maple and pine trees, with
here and there a temple peeping
picturesquely forth from the
heights.
The land is cultivated far up
the mountain sides, being ter
raced into little level garden
paddles that climb the hill like
steps. The Japs are very
thrifty and Industrious people,
and not a yard of land worth a
fiillip is allowed to go unculti-
waited and not a weed or parasite
is permitted to grow thereon and
usurp the nutriment of the soil.
The streets of the cities are
clean, well paved and drained.
The dwelling houses of the Japs
are veritable little bijous, i'm
maculately clean and as neat as
a pin. The Japs themselves are
gentle little people, good natur-
ed, thrifty, courteous and clean.
From Nagasaki we sailed to
Yokohama, Japan, via. the inland
sea. This part of our voyage
was an unbroken symphony of
scenic grandeur and beauty:
pictures worthy of a painter
brush came and went like a flock
OF glorious passenger birds. The
waters of the inland sea were as
as calm and beautiful as Cooper's
Glimmerglass and the Grant
glided over their tranquil bosom
as smoothly as a Pullman Sleep
ing car. Our course, however.
was as tortuous as the wake of a
against tide and a stiff
northeastern.
In places the inland sea mar
rows down to mere thread of
blue and often we ran close in
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-15
He WANTS A BABY
And Captain Houdlette to
Bring 1t Down.
Q ms. With Red or Black II air and a
Boy Preferred-Clot and
Teeth No Object

The following letter vas actually
written and sent by the PROMISING six
year-old son of a prominent Honolulu
family to a lady friend n San Fran
cisco:
Honolulu, H. /, May 25th. 1893.
I'm sorry .iat | haven writ to you
for such a long time. Grandma is sick,
SO she can't get me a baby. You know
at all grandmas get EN- and grandma
is sick, so will you please set one, be
cause you are as good as grandma and
Mrs. Wood got one from San Fran
cisco and the Ballantynes have sent TO
their grandma for one. Please get 4
kind wOt doesn't cry-bcys don't cry,
SO please get boy, and I want him -
be very yOung-the highest he could
be is three weeks old. ! want some
clothes but not all the clothes, only a
few clothes, because if We haven't any
ready he'd be cold, so We must be sure
to have some and send him down by
somebody wOt comes on the Austria
liza, ''-Captain Houdlette or anybody
you know.
Make little crib and PM him in and
then he could drink milk. You can
go wherever you want 70 get him.
Don't name him because / want 10
name him. I'll be disappointed a Mt
tie if you don't send him, but I won't
be angry because you are so good To
try to get him. | want one to play
with and Mama says sns wishes she
had one. Mama says she wants a lit
tier baby an me. Do you know how
old | am? I'll tell you-siX-sO Im too
old to be baby and Ihey's no BABY
here. | pulled out my own tooth in
the bOtto mrow-it's in front. l don't
want the baby to have any teeth un-
less you can't get him with any teeth.
If you can't get one three weeks old,
any size will do as long as he's baby
and want him to coo. Somebody viii
go down to the steamer 10 meet him.
Please write me what day ne will come
and what time.
They all don't come from San Fran
cisco-the babies, but you can get them
there eB sure and don't nave any mis-
take about the baby-dOn't have any
thing wrong about him. Don't let him
be girl unless you can help 1t. l want
a boy and Harriet wants q girl, but I'm
writin' the letter, so please get boy.
If there shouldn't be any boys you can
get girl If you get a girl / want 1t
to be very little one and try 20 get
a girl wOt don't cry. Most girls cry
so much and we hate EN- TO cry. Don't
name the girl; don't name either one
you get If you can't get 2 baby write
back and get one later on. If you come
down in little while Ia like you to
bring the baby yourself You buy
everything for Mama so did you buy
me for her? Get this baby at the same
place. l want baby wot has red or
black hair. Minnesota. has plenty
babies cause Gertrude knoWs-she was
born there. If you can't End a baby III
San Francisco, go to Minnesota and
get one If you don't want to so to
Minnesota yourself, you might send
there When our baby gets old enough
I'm going to take him TO see the Wood
baby. | think this climate will agree
with the baby. You don't have TO work
too much to get the baby 'canse You
might get tired.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-15
REAL
ESTATE
FOR SALE.

IA few elegant lots al
Manoa on the road. with
unsurpassed view and
climate. Or line pro-
posed Rapid Transit.
Easy terms.
Several town lots on Der.
etania Street. EVA sios
of Geo. Ross.
,-One house and LOT on
Beretania Street.
4-Lo'S in different parts o.
Kewalo Tract.
S-Kapiolani Park Addition
Lots. on inStallments
8--One homes. New houses
and high grounds at
Kewalo. SIroo each.
Cheap.
Io--IandS III Nuuanu vale,
II--Long leasehold at Kaks
ako with good returns
I,--Only 6 more lots of a,
sizes in different parts
Of the most desirable To-
cations OF Kalihi, with
fine views. macadam-
iZ-d streets, and water
supply from city. These
cots we sell at lowest
figures n monthly in
S.alime:tS without in
teTeSt so as TO put them
WITHIN reach of any
body who wants a home.
T7--AouSe and lot, well i'm
proved, on wide, macad-
amiZed street in KaIihi,
Just past Kamehameha
Schools. Price S2,2S0.
2I--e0R ShLE--A house lot
Ioox2oo in block ~ on
lehua Avenue, Pearl
City.
~ few of the very choi-
cest lots, Of various
sizes. in all Kalihi. Eva
side Of II. c. Myers,
ESQ.,, commanding an
unsurpassed view, on
fine street with water
from city. A visit to
the grounds will con-
vince. Terms TO suit
yourself.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-15
Not Expected TO Live.

Wetzell, who was caught :tatWeen tWC
cars yesterday morning 1t ilalawr2 ano
badly injured was not expected to tive
through the might He was instantly
taken to the Queens Hospital after ths
accident where amputatipn Of h les
and an arm was found necessary
The operation was performed 10y DIR
Cooper He was a new CGan on thj
road Both Superintendent Dsnison
and General Passenger Agent Smith dtt
everything possible to s3e that III
man was promptly attended TO.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-15

Christian Church, AlaEea street neal
King-Rev. VIM. a. Gardner pastor.
w G. Weldon, superintendent Of sun
day school. Richard Weedon, presi-
dent of the Young Peoples Society.
Professor L. Cook, choir master and
organist Preaching at i .. IN. and
1880 p. m. on Lords day. Prayer meet
ing Wednesday at $50 .. n a cordial
Welcome to all. SOcia bility q speciality
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-15

Honolulu, H. /, May 25th, 1893.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-15

The following letter was actually
written and sent by the PROMISING six
year-old son of prominent Honolulu
family to a lady friend n San Fran
cisco:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-02
SUGAR OF MILK.
A MATERIAL LITTLE KNOWN EENEh
ALLY MUCH USED WITH DRUGS.

ALLY MUCH USED WITH DRUGGS.
Of the great variety Of drugs and chemicals
which play an important part in the commerce
NJ the world little is known by the general pub
lie The Importation into the United States OF
baIsams banks. beans flowers gums, herbs ana
leaves Gathered from every part Of the gloDc
foots IN in value annually to nearly S5OWOOoo'
while the exports Of similar products from TINS
country have now reached total OF ABOUT
$40 600 600 But Of the hundreds Of different
names on the list with which the importer ana
wholesale drug dealer are familiar there are
scores which are almost perfect strangers to the
Law mind Along with alcohol. borax, opium, qul-
nine and other well-k known drugs will be found
cantharides. coccuus Indicus, crystallose, lyco-
podfuin. MCLEAN cutch buchu. chicle and others
Of equally engmatical character
In this latter class might almost be mentioned
sugar Of milk. which occupies one OF the most
important positions in the drug transactions OF
the present day. The title Of the drug would I'M
DIV common knowledge though as a matter OF
fact few understand its important uses. Time
was when every ounce Of this drug was import
ed from Europe. To-day, thanks to American
enterprise, it is manufactured in the Ohl'eu
States on such an extensive scale that not only
ie tha enormous domestic demand supplied by
the home made product but large quantities are
annually exported. When it was imported the
wholesale price was 80 cents pound; now 1t mas
declined to : cents. History says that sugar OF
milk was first prepared in 1913 although not
introduced into medicine until 169S. 1t Is used
almost entirely by pill manufacturers on ac-
count Of its neutral, filing properties. 1t is abso-
Iutcly neutral inodorous and with slightly
sweet taste As a vehicle for all manner or pull
verified medicines it is perfect. Acids and drugs
# all kinds. with which it may be mixed. do not
have any effect upon it nor it upon them. and in
the human stomach it is most easily disposed OF.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-02

1t Is manufactured from the Wi y OF cows
milk and is really Dy-product Of milk. The,
process is one Of evaporation and recrystalilzs@
ton. Switzerland once had a monopoly y It's
manufacture. Now Illinois leads the world
while a large factory has been started IN New-
York State. which gives promise ~ pr uclng as
much as its Western predecessor. 'Toh has been
the success Of the American Industry that the
product is shipped even 10 Switzerland. where II
Is able TO compete satisfactorily with The Euro
pean makers.
In crystal form IT resembles rock c. being
white in color. The growing demand for It has
been caused by the development Of pater- medi-
cines in pill and tablet form where NIX IS &c
sired. 1t is said to be exported in the form Of
powdered sugar for the reason that 10" freight
rates are thus secured. Otherwise a. p drug me
cost Of ocean transportation would be lars " IN
creased.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-02

lopos the latter the smallest known, buiialo
buu and a bontebok Ca South African type OF
antelope) The buffalo bull is the original OF the
article written by Mr.. Humbert for "liarpers
Magazine" last summer on "Photosraphihs
Wounded Buffalo" Across the room are TWO
hartbeest. one wildebecst. a buffalo COW ana
quagga.
Nor is this all Of the shooting trophies OF Mr..
Humbert on his parlor floor there lies non
skin. a black bears skin and zebra sKlh' III
other parts Of the house are caribou ueer' WIN
and prong-horn antelope heads. He has hunted
in Wyoming Canada California ana Ne"louhu-
land besides South and East Africa
Edward H. Litchfeld's collection in the huge
SQUARE hallway Of his house. at No. Montague
Terrace Brooklyn is a superb one, huihDerihs
not far from thirty five heads large and small.
These have a more than ordinarily interesting
setting. for. the hallway is adorned with arnor
and many medieval weapons. Above and
among these the trophies Of the chase are DIS
nlaved Every specimen OF American big game
IS 10 be found here. There are blacktalIs' ROCKY
Mountain sheep white goats zone of these IN
glass case. stuffed. antelopcs, wapiu and grH-
lilies in never-cnding show. Hardly any other
American hunter has such a showing
In at his home in Audubon Park George Bra
Crinneu has an effective dispay-in his haI.
elk. mountain sheep, antelope ana deer; IN MS
dining-room a fine buffalo head, mountain
sheep and a second antelope These were kn'e"
in the Businesses OF Montana and Wyoming
Elhu Roots house in East sixty -nnth-st mas
in its dining room splendid set OF heads' eiN
and deer Mr. Root being fine hunter Wheh he
can get away from the haunts Of men, Ills
partner Henry l.. Simpson. Of No. IL East
Fifty-second-st, has had even more success
and is an admirable mountaineer, the heads Oh
many Rocky Mountain sheep and fierce grizz'les
now hanging on his walls attesting his prowess
OF other hunters there are many. prominent
among them are Madison Grant who has many
trophies about his home, at NO - East rory
rirtb-et and has made himself an authority
on the moose. having shot several score as well
&C having written about them, and Or. William
II. Draper. Of 40. 10 East Forty seventh-st''
whose deeds with the rifle have been zone III
Montana. Newfoundland and Maine
Pbimister Proctor, the animal sculptor
who is q member Of the Boone and Crockett
Club displays in his studio, high up under the
caves OF the old building at No. 40 East Tweh-
tvtbird-st. many interesting trophy specimens
~ the Far West In a downtown broker OF
fee that of Joseph Walker, in the NILS BUM
ing hang the heads Of three fine caribou anu
one moose. The moose was shot by Mt walker
himself two Of the caribou by his son E'lS""
Walker the third by Mr.. Iiunbert
The Calumet Club has fine array OF DE
game heads. presented by various members.
other collections worthy Of note are those oWneu
by DR.. Walter b. James Of No. 81 west fIty
fonrth-st. Dr. Lewis Rutherfurd Morris, of No.
60 West Fifty -eighth-st., and Or. Robert /.
Morris Of No 10 West Thirty ninth-st