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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-19
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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-04
Burmah's Wonderful Tree.

There has appeared in Burmah a
young banyan tree, which has the look
of being made of pure gold The owner
of the field is a karen. who lives near
the spot, and has had many thousand
visitors to see his wonderful tree dur
ing the last few weeks. The field is
near the Kedok pickup" station be-
tween the railway stations of Pyln-
bongyl and Poundaw, on the Sittang
section of the Burmah Railway, that
is in the Pyuntaza subdivision. The
Burmese, on seeing this marvellous tree
let loose their superstitious fancies in
variety of directions the most pop
ular of which is to say thes appear
ance of the tree will be followed by
the formation of two ponds near the
site where the tree grows, which will
be called respectively Silver Pond and
Golden Pond, and whatsoever will drink
of the water of the latter will become
invulnerable. The owner of the tree
and his friends who foresee the de-
structfon of their property, all the
pilgrims wishing to carry away a
sprig, have intimated that any person
touching the tree will be afflicted in
some dire way, and the clothes worn
by those who scratch its bark will ig-
mite spontaneously and the wearer will
have bad attack of sickness and
burst blood vessel.-Burnah Times.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-04
are nightly turned upon the starry skies

are nightly turned upon the starry skies
] to ask the questions which seem to oul
: Impotence so slowly answered.
| But mary answers have come after
all, and some things are clear which
before could only be surmised. For in
! stance, we feel quite sure now that
, Mars has an atmosphere, though not
more than half as dense as our own;
but far better than none, as we can
/ tell by looking at our bright though
dead and desolated moon, from which
air and water has long since disap-
peared. And if Mars has air, the polar
caps alone would seem to show that he
has also ice and snow; and there APP
pear to be, as we'll, areas of water or
marsh, though less in extent than the
land. The northern hemisphere looks
brighter through the telescope, even
showing tints of red and yellow, which
astronomers are inclined to think are
chiefly dry land, probably desert; while
the southern is dark. the seas" brown
or dull gray, quite as water might ap-
pear. These spots We're first called seas,
like the smooth regions of the moon,
and the name continues in both, what
ever they may be.
In 1877 Mars was at his nearest to
US; near, that is, from an astronomers
point of view, though really at the
enormous distance of thirty-five mill
ion miles. Yet a great deal was learned
about this neighbor in the sky-among
other things, that he is attended by
two tiny satellites, or moons, never seen
before. And the same year an Italian
astronomer, Signor Schiaparelli (pro-
sheea-p a-rel ly) made careful studies
and drawings of the strange markings
Oh Mars, completing, with the fine tele-
scope at Milan, series of elaborate
sketches afterwsrd combined into an
accurate detail map.
Again, in 1899 and 1894, the earth
and Mars came near each other in their
fight through space, though somewhat
farther than during the year 1877. And
within the last few months we have
observe each other But we. are favor
ably placed because only under these
conditions can we see the north pole
of Mars, and SO much more is known
about his south pole that there is of
course, strong attraction in the mys-
FERROUS north regions. Only at this
great distance is the north pole graci-
ously tilted toward US, SO he has been
constantly watched this spring; and
SO he will be again in little over two
years. Eight years, however, will pass
before the Marian south pole can again
be studied to good advantage; in Sep
TENDER of 1909, too, all observatories
will be on the eager lookout for news
from this fascinating planet.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-04
The Nightingale.

Here comes a singer indeed, who
has neither equal nor second. If its
song is unknown to any who read this,
I would ask, wait until you hear music
solemn and yet jubilant as ever came
from bird; voice of transcendeni
sweetness, variety, and with a supreme
power Of impressing itself on the very
Utmost fiber of our minds, and bring
ing US into some mysterious sympathy
with things beyond our understanding
and when you hear it you many know
you are listening to the nightingale.
That song has been described over and
over again; poets have loved to sing
Of it, and Milton, in his 20 nightingale
that on yon blooming spray" has, with
his curious and accurate felicity, found
just the word that expresses one Of its
chief charms = it's liquid notes.
Wordsworth's
Those. notes Of thine, they thrill and
pierce,
Tumultuous harmony and fierce
express other of its beauties Keats
famous ode has in 1t less of the night
ingale than Of his own feeling on hear
Ing the nightingale, but yet his epithet,
'full-throated ease hits that care
lCSSACSS VI ulICId1ICS, tUdt
tativeness joined with a supreme fin
ish, which places it above and beyond
all bird artists. But if 1 were asked
what is its best, its most wonderful
achievement, l should say it was the
marvellous crescendo en- one note. al
most human in its artistic perfection.
This is the one low piping sound more
sweet than ALL of Coleridge-Coleridg
who has so defended the bird against
the charge of melancholy that all 9TH
er defenses can be but plagiarism
of his.
It's the merry nightingale
That crowds and hurries and precipitates
With fast thick MARBLES his delicious
notes.
Indeed, I do not know how the fable
OF the melancholy nightingale has crept
into the minds of men; not only is
the song exultant, but every movement
Of the bird is full of verve and Joyous
ness.-Gentlemans Magazine.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-04
MARS AT CLOSE RANGE.
Easy to Study His Face When Only
35,OOO.OOO Miles Awav

All the monster glasses with which
the late rapid advance has been made
in knowledge of our celestial neighbors
have come into being since the civil
war. says Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd in
"St. Nicholas" Until then, in this
country, the Harvard telescope of ff-
teen inches was the largest About
1860 one Of eighteen and half inches
was ordered for the University of Mis-
sissippi; but with the breaking cut of
the war telescopes had to wait, and
these lenses are now at the North
western University, in Evanston, Illi-
nois. It is only since 1870 that really
huge instruments have multiplied and
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-04
Care Of Finger Nails,

Soft white hands are always one of
the principal points of refined appear
ance, and for that reason women of all
ages have most carefully attended to
their hands," writes Mrs Humphrey,
advising plain girls how to be pretty,
in the Ladies' Home Journal 1.-THE
care of the hands cannot be said to be
neglected nowadays, when so many
persons employ the manicure, WHO
scrapes the nails and makes them of a
lovely pink, pushes back the skin from
the little white half moons and ends by
washing the hands in a prepare ton
that makes them both smooth end
white, temporarily, If not permanently.
The hands look extremely we'll after
the manicure's task has bsen finished,
although Erasmus Wilson says that the
nails should never be scraDed. nor
cleaned with any instrument save the
nailbrush. The only other implement
needed is. the small ivory presser"
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-04

Tremayne Will soon leave for London to
open negotiations for production In
that city.
It is said James M. Barrie's new COM
edy, Two Kinds of Women" will be
FIRST producedN in the Duke of York's
Tlleater, London Charles Frohman
controls both the English and American
rights OF the play. Maude Adams will
appear IN the American production.
Miss Alberta Gallatin, who was
chosen this spring by Henry Miller to
play Ophelia opposite his Hamlet, from
a list of more than one hundred promi-
nent women, has recently been engaged
by R. L. Giffen for his summer season
in Denver, to succeed Minnie Seligman.
-
Julia Marlowe has been appointed a
delegate to the Women's International
Congress, which is to meet in London
this summer. Miss Marlowe will de-
liver a lecture on women of the
Stage"
Fife Ellsler, who will always be re-
memberea as Hazel Kirke, Will play
Glory Quayler in one of the two THE
Christian" companies next season.
Harry Corson Clarke has resigned
from the Frawley Stock Company,
York to finish booking his next season S
tour.
- =
Ernest Martin, a member of Sir
Henry Irving's company, has written
"a volume of essays on social evils, en-
titled Shadows and Glimpses of So
ciety."
Henry Miller is in New York secur-
ing effective accessories for the reviv-
ais Of Hamlet and Julius Caesar y
which he is to stage at the Columbia.
Norma Yeager, Sam T. Shaw's new
leading woman, played San Francisco a
few seasons ago with Jacob Lifts En-
sign Company.
|. Lester Lonergan, who has been high
ly praised for his work with Modjeska
for the past two seasons. has been en-
gagged for Nance O'Neirs company.
Charles Dixon has completed and will
produce next season three-act play
entitled, "All Men Are Liars"
Hall Game has gone to Rome. 1t is
said that his next novel will deal with
that locality.
Herman Sudermann, who has been i'll
with pneumonia in Berlin, has recov-
| cred his health
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-04

and Wagner were boys at school
Furthermore, it is close upon seventy
four years since Manuel Garcia sang
| Figaro" to the Almaviva of his father
and the Rosina of his sister Malibran at
the first performance of Rossinis III
Barbiere'' ever given in New York. The
commercial capital of America, then a
town of 166, 900 habitants, did not ap-
preciate opera as it now does, and as
there was sometimes only thirty people
in pit and stalls combined, Malibran
was sent back to Europe.
There is a report that Adelina Patti
is to return next season to this country
and make a concert tour, which shall
positively be her last. One American
impresario, who went abroad last sum-
mer, wanted to engage her for tour
during the past winter, but the nego-
tiations came to nothing. 1t is regarded
as extremely uncertain whether Nine.
Patti would be able to repeat the great
successes she at one time made here in
concert. But Nine. Patti, whatever the
state of her voice may be, is one of the
best known persons in the world. Those
who have never seen her would prob
ably take advantage of the opportunity
if she came, and her recent marriage
would stimulate this part of the pub
lies interest to hear her Others would
go to discover if she still sang as she
did in the past
Musical America. Nine. Eugenia
Mantelli, the contralto of the company
at the Metropolitan, left New York
with ambitious plans for the future. She
is going to Paris to devote herself there
for while to the serious study of
French and then to make her debut in
the French Capital. She is mot salts
fed with the honors that fall to an
Italian contralto and expects to sing
here next year some of the French
roles, and make an attempt also to win
approval in Paris. Nine. Mantellis
stage career has been rather an I'M
usual one. She began to sing profess
sionally after very brief preparation.
Later she married and retired from the
stage Her husband was a merchant
living in South America, although an
Italian by birth. He lost his fortune
after a few years, and she was COM
PEELED to return to the stage. He ac-
companied her to this country on her
first visit, and died after his return to
Italy.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-04
Safe at Home.

This Government" said the Spanish
statesman. indignantly, is all at sea"
'.Ch, not so bad as that!'' protested
the colleague.
Well" he unwillingly yielded tall
of it except the navy" Washington
Star.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-04

The seven principal Bibles in the
world are the Koran of the Maf1ome-
tans, the Eddas Of the Scanxiinavians,
the Tripitikes OF the Buddhists, the
Five Kings Of the Chinese, the three
Vedas of the Hindoos. the Zendavesta,
and the Scriptures OF the Christians.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-04
Wealth and Happiness

Wealth does not bring true happiness,
especially to persons who don't know
how to pronounce Louis Quinze.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-04

w. A. Tremayne has just completed
dramatization of Joseph Hatton's
novel, The Dagger and the Cross for
Robert B. Mantell. who will produce it
next season. Mr.. Hatton expresses him
self as delighted with the work and Mr.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-04

j. K. Emmett and Lottie ellison will
play summer season in the. Canadian
provinces opening on July 25th. Their
regular season. will open in August at
Philadelphia. They will be seen in
Fritz in Madhouse" until November,
When a new play will be produced.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-04

James A. Herne will damatize and
direct the production Of Zangwill's
Children of the Ghetto" which will
take place next September in Wash
lngten, preparatory to a run in New
York. 1t is announced that Mr. Herne
will receive 5000 for his services.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-04

In long and interesting article on
Nine. Albani, printed in the Musical
Times, it is stated that her stage name
was not assumed by Miss Lajeunesse in
consequence of the kindness she expe-
rieneed in Albany, but in consequence
OF the declaration Of her teacher at Mi
ian that she could not appear on the
Italian stage under her own name. He
had never heard Of Albany, N. Y, but
chose her stage name in memory of an
old Italian family.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-04

Manuel Garcia celebrated the Begin
ming of his 95th year two weeks ago in
London. He is still in coed health.
What so long life implies may partly
be judged by the facts that Garcia had
to leave his native Spain during the
Peninsular war;. owing to the advance
of Wellington upon Badsjoz: that the
veteran himself is contemporary of
Beethoven and Schubert. and that he
was actually singing on the operate
stage as a baritone when Gounod, Verdi
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-04

Arizona" the new play by Augustus
Thomas, will be produced at the Grand
Opera-house in Chicago, June Stn,
probably with Otis Skinner in the lead
ing role. There have been some nego-
tiations with Robert Edeson, but he
will probably remain beyond the open
ing date in his present position with
His Excellency the Governor"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-05-17
a Great Battle Pending.

The greatest political convention OF
this century will be that Of the Demo
cratic party next year to nominate the
man who will succeed Mckinley as
president. It will either be the hottest
and most fercely contested battle OF
the century between the people and the
plutocrats, or it will be all one sided,
and for the people-let US work for the
latter. The gold clique will use every
means 10 their power to capture the
convention, for well they know they
can never again fool or coerce the
masses into voting into Office another
Republican to be simply man Friday
for the Millionaire trusts to command.
It will be we'll, even now, for silver men
to be on their guard against sending
delegates to precinct, county or state
conventions, who are not known to be
true blue. This precaution is neces-
sary in order to keep the silver forces
in command. One hears great deal
about the "silver craze" being over and
such other rot, but it all emenates
from the gold bug Republicans or their
active allies, the gold-bug Democrats or
Assistant Republicans as they are some
times more properly called, vi o try t
fool themselves into the notion that
what they claim is true. The silver
issue will be the most prominent one
in next years battle, and all friends Of
the white metal should do all they can
to gain glorious victory for the people
over the Mark Hanna's and their pup
pets Of the Mckinley stripe.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-05-17
AS with Ono Voice They Spoke Up.

At little gathering not long ago the
guests played some simple games and
told ghost stories, and managed to have
a. good time in the oldfashioned way.
Pretty soon one Of the gentlemen
said:
II don't believe we appreciate what
a steady old slow coach the human
brain is. Notwithstanding all our
talk about quick wits, and flashes OF
intelligence, the brain is not so easily
thrown from its accustomed ruts. If,
for instance, I ask a question which
is entirely new to you, but which your
honest old brain mistakes for a query
quite similar in construction, it will
go right ahead and telegraph the re-
ply in its own hidebound way"
"That sounds interesting" said one
of the guests, but show US an exam
pie"
Il WILL" said the first speaker, with
the proviso that you answer it prompt
ly." He smiled, and then, without
any haste, quietly asked: 'sW'ho saved
the life OF Pocahontas?"
John Smith" roared twenty voices.
"You see," said the questioner.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-05-17
Alcoholic Milk.

It has long been known that ginger
beer is a favorite drink Of teetotalers,
as being cooling and refreshing, but it
is not so generally known that il con-
tains an appreciable quantity Of alco-
hol-about 2 per cent. It has now
been discovered by a German chemist
that milk containing alcohol can be
got straight from the cow" He was
employed to examine some milk which
had an irritating taste, and discovered
that it contained alcohol to the amount
of O.96 per cent. The cause was not
far to seek, for the herd belonged to a
distillery, and were fed on the waste,
which contained alcohol, which alco-
hol was excreted in the milk. It will,
however, be a comfort to really enthu-
siastic teetotalers to know that the OBJ
noxious addition was easily driven of
by heat. Alcoholic preparations OF
milk, such as koumiss, have, OF course,
been known from time immemorial,
but the fact of alcoholic milk straight
from the cow is, at first sight, start
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-05-17
Tho Sucoical AM

The native Brazilian, far removed as
he usually is from doctors and sur
geons, depends upon little ant to sew
up his wounds when he is slashed or
scratched. Truth to tell, the average
surgeon could do the job no better than
these little insects. The ant has two
strong nippers on his head. They are
his weapons for battle or forage.
When Brazilian has cut himself, for
example, he picks up an ant, presses
the nippers against the wound, one on
each side, and then gives the bug a
squeeze. The indignant insect nat
urally snaps his nippers together,
piercing the flesh and bringing the
lacerated parts close together. The
Brazilian at that moment gives the
ants body jerk, and away it flies,
leaving the nippers imbeded in the
flesh, that kills the ant, but, as he has
served his most useful purpose, in life.
it is well. The operation is repeated
until the wound is sewed up neatly
and thoroughly.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-05-17
What Changed Them?

Every high official and great light
formerly in the ranks of the Republi-
can party were bimettalists end favored
the free coinage Of silver by the United
States-after 1873, when British gold
had purchased its demonetization,
without the knowledge Of those who
voted for it, every statesman in the
then Republican party favored its re-
monetization, and every national Re
publican platform done likewise until
the bosses of the party sold it out, bag,
baggage, brains and boodlers to the
money changers at St Louis, in 1896,
and put Marcus Hanna in possession as
master of the hounds and keeper Of
President Mckinley. These are facts,
and are substantiated by the records.
Why, at the national convention Of the
g. o. p. in 1888, when this same Viii
liam Mckinley was chairman OF the
committee on platform, he wrote in
that document these words; 1.-The Re.
publican party is in favor Of the use Of
both gold and silver as money, and con-
demns the policy Of the Democratic
administration in is efforts to demone-
tize silver" What change seems to
have come over William since that time
but that was before Mark became his
master. At that time also, every
metropolitan paper of any prominence
was in favor Of the free coinage Of
silver at the ratio of l6 to /. Will some
or all Of the Assistant Republican pa
pers in South Carolina, who pretend to
know everything about the money
question, explain Why the g: 0. p. de,
serted free silver ct the bidding OF
Hanna and the other boodlers.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-05-17
Titled SWindlers.

Baron Edgar de Bara, who is charged
with using the mails to defraud a num-
Der of persons in England, went before
Judge Kohlsaat in the United States
district court in Chicago Thursday at
ternoon with petition to have his bail
reduced from $4,000, but when he left
a few minutes later his bond had been
raised to s1l, 1000. The court ordered
bond of $4,000 in each Of the II in
dictments, which we're returned against
the titled prisoner and his wife by the
last federal grand jury. The Baroness
Fanny de Bara, who is at liberty on
$500 bail, will also appear ia court to
plead Monday. The de Baras are said
to have represented themselves as
agents of the Edison Phonograph com.
pany in Chicago, and to have sWindled
their victims out Of sums sggregatlng
S50,000.