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The Monticellonian., 1899-05-05
Col. Huntinston's Marines.

One hundred marines, in command of Col. k. W. Huntington and Cap tarns W. C. Neville and W. J. Nickel way, faced the building. As the pres ident approached the Marine band played Hail to the Chief" and while the marines presented arms the off eers and spectators doffed their hats. Admiral Philip introduced each of the officers to the president, who shook hands with every one of them.
The Monticellonian., 1899-05-05
A Dispatch to Dewey.

New York. May 2.-While at the New York, May While at the navy yard President Mckinley sent the following cablegram to Admiral Dewey:
 May l, 18e9-Dewey, Manila: On this anniversary of your great victory the people of the United States unite in an expression of affection and grati- tude to yourself and the brave officers and men of your fleet, whose brilliant achievements marked an epoch in his tory, and which will live in the annals of the worlds heroic deeds.
 CIVILIAN McKINLEY.'
The Monticellonian., 1899-05-05
\ Round of Inspection.

After this the party was escorted through the stores and factories, and then visited the Yosemite and Glacier, which they inspected. After the in nt the commandant's residence.
 After luncheon, the president and the other visitors returned to the city on board the Nina, and as the vessel swung into the East river, another sa- lutc of 21 guns was fired from the Vermont, on which vessel the presi dents flag was floating.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-08
INSURES

No skill is required to have the air
about your home pure. The cost is tri-
fling and effect is wonderful. Disin.
fectine as prepared by us will serve the
purpOse
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-08
ALASKA BOUNDARY.

If the dispute between the United
States and Great Britain regarding the
Alaska boundary had taken place
twenty years ago, the air would have
been full of war cries, the blood would
have been up on both sides, and war
preparation have been made on an ex-
tensive scale. The delicate situation
today is not realized.
The vast territory of the British
east of the Alaska shore line is in
terror land. The Americans claim the
entire shore front, and refuse to let the
British have any outlet whatever to
the sea- 1t is the case of a man who
has a long strip along the highway,
and refuses to let his neighbor, who
owns an enormous tract of land in the
rear of it, have any right of way to
the highway. Among private persons
the State steps in and compels a right
of way to be given. Among sovereign
States only the war power can secure
it. Great Britain insists on an open
ing to the ocean of her immense ter
ritory, and wishes to leave the case to
arbitration. The United States says,
eve will not arbitrate because we
have exclusive right to the shore"
What an individual would be forced to
do, a nation refuses to do, and the
people applaud. Let us keep all we
| have,-give the BritiShers nothing,
shouts the crowd And so we would,
: 70, ibn ar q
British have us ION the hip in the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty, which prevents
| us from holding an exclusive right in
| an Isthmus canal.
Both governments however are
avoiding friction The Washington
government delays sending troops to
Pyramid hill The British government
| keeps it's Customs men and mounted
| police we'll in hand on the frontier.
| Both governments discourage war
talk The good people in both coun-
tries insist on amicable adjustment
and concessions if necessary. But the
men in both countries, who go about
with flags in their pockets, may WHIP
| them out AT any moment, wave them
| and insist on the nobility of another
war for the sake of national honor
| Twenty years ago they would have
promptly flung their respective navies
at each other. Today lines Of con,
sentative men stand with locked arm!
before the irrepressibles, and tell then
to keep their flags in their pockets.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-08
EUROPE'S TALLEST QUEEN.

Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has
lately been objecting to being called by
the press the little Queen" although
she in no way objects to the term the
young Queen" As TO the adjective
little" she says:-"This certainly can
not have reference to my stature" In
this she is right, for she is one Of the
tallest of women rulers of the present
day. She measures SIT. 51ain. The
Queen of Spain measures SIT. 2-5in.,
while the Empress of Germany and
Queen Victoria are still smaller. Not
only is Queen Wilhelmina of good sta
ture, but she is of proportionate build,
for her waist of 21in. is in admirable
keeping with the bust, which is Aim.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-08
PURE

We have it prepared in quantities to
supply any or all demands. We will
limits, trial bottle at 25 cents. Don't
neglect to order a bottle at once.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-08

NIL are the best after dinnel
AIOOA = L lllS pills, aid digestion. 25c.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-08
A LAND VALUE.

Those who have visited the city of
New York, will remember the massive
United States Custom house in Wall
street. After many years OF negotla-
aion. it has been sold by the govern
ment to private parties, at the rate OF
s104 per square foot of land. A new
building will be erected. The price
Maid indicates the value of land in the
business parts of the city. AS the
standard dimensions of city lots are
25x1OO feet, it appears that at the rate
maid a city lot in that neighborhood
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-08

Everyone enjoys it; your health de-
ponds upon it. You can just as well
have it as your prudent neighbor. Old
and young alike endorse it,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-08
SCrOfuIa
Swollen Glands, Scrofuia Sores, Hip
Disease, Boils, PimpIes, Erup-
tons Tell the Story Dreadful
consequences Of impure Blood.

Certainly scrofula, if anything, may be
called the advertisement of foul blood.
1t is the scourge of the world - offensive,
painful, facilitating, stubborn. Outward
applications do not cure. Emollients
may palliate, they cannot abolish the evil.
There is one sure way out, and that is to
eliminate the faint from the blood. For
this purpose Hoods Sarsaparilla is abso
lutely without an equal.
81 have taken Hoods Sarsaparilla for
scrofulous humor and impure blood and
am now almost entirely cured of the erup-
tions with which have been afflicted for
the past year. My face, chest and back
were badly broken out" FRED B. ORD
WAY, Woodstock, VT.
Hoods s psr;;;s
Is the best-in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
HJ, NIL are the best after-dinnel
AAoOA - AlAS pills, aid digestion. 25c.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-08
AIR.

Those who are familiar with the
article order it by the gallon, which
proves beyond all doubt that it is the
proper thing.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-08

is valued at s26O,O0O. The price paid
for the Custom house premises is
So, 265, 900. This price would leave no
profit TO those who pay it, if a ''sky
scraper" could not be built upon the
land. rising TO q dozen stories.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-08
EMANCIPATED JAPAN.

Nearly all of the new treaties made
between Japan and the European ma
tfons went into effect on July 10Th,
but the consular jurisdiction did not
end until August 4th.
Japan is now by the voluntary act
of civilized nations, placed on the COM
mon footing of all nations. The ar
bitrary, despotic and, in many respects,
the unjustifable power assumed over
Japan by the foreign nations for near
ly forty years, gave way to an ack-
nowledgment of international rights.
During these years even the most con-
sentative Americans have made no pro-
test against the despotlc act OF the
Federal government, an act entirely
contrary to the spirit OF American
political thought. The nation has been
doing for these many years in Japan
lust what it is now doing in Luzon,-
debating to an alien people what they
should do.
There is much misgiving as to the
conduct OF the Japanese, under the new
condition of affairs. The old European
residents predict that they will con-
stantly do acts of injustice to foreign
ers, and there will be no practical
remedy for any wrong done.
We cannot expect the Japanese to
change at once their racial methods OF
dealing with offenders. We refuse
ourselves to abolish absurditieS in the
administration of our own laws tow
ards ourselves and other nations, and
yet we demand that the japanese
should be measured by the highest
standards of the world. Besides, there
is strong feeling among those who
are subjects of powerful nations that
they may impose on the Japanese in
many ways, especially i'm minor mat
ters. 1t has been the habit of the
great Powers to treat the Asiatlcs
arrogantly. The United States alone
have been considerate.
The ruling class in Japan are alive
to the necessity of avoiding any fric-
tion with foreigners. They have al
ready gone so far, in several places
as to provide better Jail accommOda'
tions for foreign prisoners than they
do for Japanese subjects. While they
have Justly insisted on the abolition o.
Consular jurisdiction, they have beer
ready to show the world, that they
could be just in the settlements OF dis
putes which involved foreigners. Their
will be. of course, more or less friction
,,rdar tho new conditions but it viii
not be serious so long as the represen
tatiyes of all nations, as we'll as TIN
Japanese rulers, are resolved that quar-
1els shall be avoided.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-08

In March, 1881, King Kalakaua was,
with his suite, the guest OF the Elm
DerOr of Japan The King voluntarily
offered to revise the Hawaiian treaty
with Japan, SO as to exclude the I'M
usual right of Consular jurisdiction.
The Emperor and his Cabinet regarded
such a revision as an entering wedge
in their efforts to secure similar re-
vision i'm all treaties. The offer was
accepted, and draft OF revised
treaty made But as soon as the Eu-
ropean governments heard of 1T, they
insisted on the suspension of the pro-
ceedings, and an indefinite postpone
ment resulted. Before this had occurr-
ed. the Imperial government in return
for this voluntary offer of King kala-
Raua, gave to him entertainments and
receptions, which seemed to tax the
resources of \the Empire, and now,
eighteen years afterwards, seem to
have been unreal in their spendor,
and equalling the most gorgeous spec
tac1es ever presented to Royal guests
in the history of the Orientals.
What Hawaii offered to do, and was
restrained from doing in 1881, has now
been done by all of the Powers.
The good will of the Japanese gov
eminent towards Hawaii continued un
ill 1897, when i'm the promotion OF IL
own policy, the government OF ftaWal
violently terminated this desirable
friendship, and committed what on'
Japanese regarded as an unpardonaoi
insult. in violently returning Its SUD
jects to Japan. How far the Japanes
government has the right ito resen
this act. or how far any nation has tn
right to resent an alleged grievance
is a question in morals that it is ldl
TO discuss.
Japan ceases to have any direct re
lations with Hawaii. She now deal
with the greater America, and her re
Nations with us will be arranged
Washington.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-08

BE mine!" he cried in voice sur
charged with anguish. If you refuse
ago, and the heartless girl refused
him Yesterday he died. Girls beware!
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-08

NEW BILL at ORPHEUM THEA
TER tonight.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-08
DISlNFECTINE

With the heat of summer comes the
foul and disease producing air from
the cesspOOl, vault and cellar. You
must be on your guard against the &C
of trash, garbage, etc.; it
is dangerous to have around.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-08
DUCKS IN THE PHILIPPINES
Added n Good Thing to
TheIS RatIons.

Wednesday morning, March 16, was
the time set for Gen. Wheaton's flying
brigade to sweep the country from
Guadeloupe to Laguna de Bay. 1t was
a rainy morning, but the ducks at
Pateros liked it all the better for that,
and our boys didn't seem to mind it in
the least. They swept across the coun-
try with irresistible force, and every
thing cleared out of the country but
the ducks of Pateros, and the boys were
well pleased at that. Canned beef and
vegetable soup, coffee, and rice are
wholesome, but when it came to weigh
ing such rations in the balance with
canvas-bacls or ''any other old duck"
there was not a dissenting voice in the
choice. Pateros is the duck farm of
Luzon. The ducks simply breed and
grow there by the thousand. In fact, so
thick were they that one soldier, in
speaking to me about it, said:
Ibid you see us? Why, we marched
across the Pasig on their backs. Hon
est!"
"What, and left them?" ! asked.
"Oh, no; we marched back again after
we had killed off the barefoots and eat
our supper on the spot. But, really,
when halt was called for supper went
out with foraging party for ducks,
and we took a casco and caught 500
and you couldn't see the water then.
believe there were 5000 in that one
swamp"
The night after the capture of Pate
ros, which, by the way, is Spanish for
duck, dined at one of the regimental
headquarters, and we had duck in
every known method of the culinary
art, and think there was hardly a
camp along the line the next day that
was not revcling in the luxury of Pate
ros duck, and for that matter many
days afterward; and l don't believe
there is 'hole in the water" at Pateros
yet.-Manila Cor. Leslie's Weekly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-08

Little Colorado river, watching his in.
creasing bands of cattle and horses,
and, now and again, take out few
tourists to the wonderful forest near
by.
/ have been out to the petrified forest
a number of times, sometimes with
Adam and sometimes without him. But
the trip is not complete without the
presence of the genial and vigorous
Scotchman.
After crossing the river, not far from
Hanna's house, the drive is over COM
paratively level country towards line
of bluffs or cliffs some four or five
miles away. On reaching these cliffs
we find a number of bays and promon-
tories, which make canyons and ravines
into which we can drive and ride for
purposes of exploration. Here we find
the logs scattered about in confusion
in every direction. Strange to say, all
the trees are split up into logs, and
equally strange is the fact that If one
tries to split log the fracture is
longitudinal one, while all the old
fractures are transverse. Sticking out
of the cliff walls all around us are Sec
tions of trees. AS the soft material of
which the walls are composed is washed
away, more of the trees become eX-
posed, and in time are released from
their matriX, only to roll down and
join the great mass on the level. The
results of this constant disintegration
are seen in the most peculiar carvings
or sculptures of the soft rock which
surround these trees. Eonder is
group which looks like dwarfsh man
and his wife, whilst here to the left
a bold pillar stands out, so or more
feet high, crowned with the head of a
tremendous eagle. Yonder, on hill,
is 2O-foot log of jasper and agate, so
resting on the brow of the hill that
it looks for all the world like a cannon,
natural fortress to exclude people
from the region of the beautiful stones.
A little over half mile away on the
southwest side of this bluff the soil has
been so washed away as to cut ra-
vine right underneath one of the very
few almost perfect trees found in the
forest. So that here we have natural
bridge formed out of a petrified tree.
This tree was originally over 200 feet
high, and is now so large in diameter
that 1 have a friend who has ridden
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-08
WONDERS OF NATURE
None More Impressive Than Those
of the Petrified Forest.
Among Them Il n Natural bridge
Formed of n Petrified Tree-Rc-
mnrIsnbIe sagncity ofnn
Old Horse.
rsneclal Arizona Letter.l

Most people have doubtless heard the
story of the Arizona pioneer who was
giving lecture in New York on the
wonders of his far-away country.
When he came to his description of the
petrified forest, it is reported that he
said somewhat as follows: "Yes, ladies
and gentlemen, out yonder in Arizona
there is forest where the trees are all
growing just the same as they did CEN
turtles ago, but all pewtrified. Yes, gem
Ilemen, them trees is still standing and
growing 200 or more feet high, the same
as they did centuries ago, but ali pew
trified. And the branches on them ere
trees is growing the same as they did
centuries ago, but all pewtritied. And
If you dig down into the ground you
will find the roots of them ere trees n
growing just the same as they did cen
turies ago, but all Pewtrifed. And on
the branches of them ere trees leaves
are growing just the same as they did
centuries ago, but all pewtrified. And,
flying about among the branches of
them ere pewtrified trees, ladies and
gentlemen, are number of pewtrified
birds, a-singing pewtrified songs"
A gentleman in the audience here
arose and asked the privilege OF sub
mitting question to the lecturer
Said he: "If these petrified birds are
flying about in this petrfied forest
what becomes of the law of gravita-
tion?"
Without any hesitation the lecturer
replied: "Oh, that's pewtrified, tool"
Now, whether this story has any foun.
dation in fact or not 1 am unable to
say, but it is from such story as this
that many people have gained an idea
as to what the petrifed forest is like.
AT the outset let it be understood that
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-08
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
Helpful Hints on Matters Of Every
day Interest to the Home
Head.

A cooking teacher advises that lean
fish like halibut, cod and others of that
character may be brushed with oil or
melted butter and broiled on the gas
broiler. This way of cooking, it is as
serted is similar to frying, and does not
fill the house with the smell of fried
fish.
Try mixture of benzine and pow
dered boraX to remove iron rust from
white cloth; for mildew, an application
of powdered chalk and boraX. All fruit,
tea and coffee stains are more easily re-
moved by dissolving little boraX in the
boiling water that is poured through
them. When upholstered furniture is
infested with moths, sprinkle it with
powdered boraX, dusting it well into
the crevices. To clean woodwork add Il
tablespoonful to a pint of hot water
and use flannel cloth. A nice lather
for cleaning light woolens is made by
adding about tablespoonful of the
powder to a gallon of water.
To learn to breathe properly, initiate
the lungs and walk for five PAGES, keep
ing the mouth shut and breathing
through the nose, increasing the five
PAGES to ten, and then to Is or more.
Follow this up by taking several long
breaths after getting up in the morn
ing and again before retiring.
The glass doors of bookcases, cab
inets and glass of every description can
be made beautifully bright by the use
of a little powdered fuller's earth A
bit of wet linen should be dipped into
it and then rubbed upon the glass; then
it must be washed off with clean water
leather.
Skirts and aprons that are starched
so stitfly as to rustic should never be
worn by one who ministers in a sick
room. This is one of the trifles which
occasion real annoyance to an invalid,
and often prevent sleep.
A much better polish on lamp CHM
neys may be obtained by not using
water. Rub the chimney first with soft
tissue paper until the SCOT is thorough
ly removed, then sprinkle in little
salt, and rub with dry flannel. Glass
treated in this way is beautifully bril-
liant.
Under no circumstances should a
child be put to bed with cold feet Sleep
will be disturbed and congestion or ir-
ritation in the throat or other organs
is apt to follow on account of the blood
being deviated from the surface of the
body. If the child is delicate let him
sleep between thin blankets instead of
sheets.-Boston Budget.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-08
CREATING TERRIFIC HEAT.
4 Temperature Attained by Elec-
trIcity Within 5000 Degrees
OF That of the Sun.

Prof. Tucker, of Columbia university,
has succeeded in producing the greatest
heat yet known to man. a specially
constructed electrical furnace and cur
rent of unusual power were used to ere
ate this temperature, which was so high
that under it steel, hard quartz and
even platinum were vaporized. AS for
ordinary crucibles, they disappeared at
once in little puffs of smoke. The heat
obtained was $500 degrees Fahrenheit,
200 degrees hotter than any tempera-
ture before produced. Says a corre-
spondent: 1t is difficult to appreciate
the degree of such heat without some
comparisons. Scalding water means u
temperature of PIP degrees Fahrenheit,
and red-hot iron 500 degrees. Steel
melts at 5000 degrees, and boils like
water at $500 degrees. AS for the heat
of the sun, it is estimated at 10000 de-
grees, so that Prof. Tucker obtained
n temperature which came within only
3,7OO degrees of Old Sol himself. OF
course, n special apparatus was needed
to measure the temperature obtained
by Prof. Tucker-ordinary thermom-
eters being quite out of the question.
The arrangement used for this pur-
pose is called a calorimeter, and it is
n rather intricate piece of apparatus.
While it depends upon mercury for the
recording of the degree of heat or cold
obtained, the reading is not made in the
direct way that obtains with the or
dinary thermometer. The readings of
the cGlorimeter are taken, and some
celebration is necessary to determine
the exact value in degrees of heat OF
cold of the figures. Because of this
fact it is usually found that the actual
heat obtained is slightly above that re-
corded. The heat obtained by Prof.
Tucker was $500 degrees it is not inn
probable that il was nearly $500. Sci
entifically the experiment was of inn
portance, because it has demonstrated
that the degree of heat obtained some
time ago by Prof. Moisson, of Paris, was
not the greatest possible. CONNER
cially it is useful, because it has shown
that. diamonds of marketable size and
purity may be made artiticially. Fur
ther, it has given to commerce two
products of almost incalculable value
calcium carbide and silicium carbide
Boston Transcript.