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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-11
KAUTz SUSTAINED
Government Will Stand
BY Admiral's Action.
Acted Within His lnstructions-ko Clash Eek
reeted Between the Americans and En-
gish and the Germans

WASHINGTON, March 3O.-Tne
State Department has not yet received
official advices relating TO the occur
rences in Samoa. The demonstration
is regretted, but the opinion is express
ed that Admiral Kautz acted on what
was his best judgment and informa-
ton. The State Department acknowl-
edges that no permanent agreement
can be reached under the treaty unless
all three powers agree, but the hope
is that some settlement of the difficulty
may be brought about when it becomes
apparent that the present conditions
cannot exist Indefinitely.
| Admiral Kautz acted within his in
Istructions. 1t is believed that he con-
Guided, after consultation with Captain
Sturdee of the Porpoise, the senior
British naval officer, and the United
States and British consuls, that state
Of anarchy existed which called for
action. The fact that the edicts of the
| Chief Justice were disregarded and
| ignored, although sustained by the rep
Iresentatives of the two governments
made such a course imperative. There
is no doubt, with the facts now at
hand, that Admiral Kautz will be sus-
tanned by the United States Govern
ment No word has been received from
Rear Admiral Kautz, although a cable
gram is momentarily expected. The
regulations of the Navy Department
require the immediate report OF any
occurrence out of the ordinary, and
Assistant Secretary Allen, who is act
ing secretary in the absence of Secre-
tary Long, entertains no doubt that
Rear Admiral Kautzs report is ON the
way.
While the press reports agree that
there is direct issue between the
American and British authorities on
the one hard and the German upon
the other, raised by the action of the
Consul, Herr Rose, in supporting by
proclamation the contentious of Ma
taafa and his rebel followers, hope is
yet expressed that it will develop that
the representatives of the three pow
ers signatory to the Berlin treaty were
acting in unison against the preten-
|sions of the rebel chief. The officials
at the Navy Department hardly believe
a contingency could arise which would
result in an actual clash between the
naval forces. The great preponder-
ance of strength on the one side, as
represented by the American cruisers
Philade' phia and the British cruisers
Royalist and Porpoise, over the single
German warship IN the harbor, would
render the issue of a collision so GER
tain that no one is rash enough to i'm
agine that an actual combat could oc-
cur.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-11
A FAST OCEAN STEAMSHIP
Omaha World-Herald.)

| The famous steamship Howard Cas-
sard is now i'll the shipyards of the
Cramps, in the process of being rebuilt.
This vessel was constructed six years
| ago by the Arrow Steamship Company
with the design of making the voyage
across the Atlantic in four days. 1t
was unique among sea-faring vessels,
and the theory upon which it was con-
structed will soon be tested. Several
Philadelphia capitalists have Interest
! ed themselves in the boat, and when
the Cassard shall have been entirely
rebuilt an effort will be made with her
to cut down the record of the fast ships
| that plough the waters Of the Atlantic.
The Cassard originally cost her build
ers S2!5, 600, but when the company
failed she was sold TO private in
| dividual for the sum of $500. Al
| though the boat is 225 feet long, she
is really only model. The company
had decided that if the Cassard was
a success they would build a big ship
| of the regulation size, say 500 feet or
more, on her lines. The distinctive
| feature of the ship is her extremely
narrow beam. She is only Is feet WIDE.
Her supposed capacity for speed lies
more in her lines than in her ma
chinery Naval architects all agree
that never before was built a ship
that offers less resistance to the wa
ter. When the Cassard was first tried
she ploughed through the water at the
rate Of thirty miles an hour. When
she was pushed further the Corliss
engines with which she was equipped
Ilbroke down. New engines will be put
| in the craft, and it is expected that
the Carsard vii change all present
day methods Of shipbuilding. Her first
| trip across the Atlantic will be watch
ed with interest by the shipbuilders
of the world
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-11
Omaha'S Big Show.

WASHINGTON, March 25.-The In
dian office will assist in sending rep
resentatives of all tribes to Omaha dur
ing the summer, it being understood
that the cost Of transportation and
maintenance is to be paid by the
greater American exposition.
Reports from agents of the exposi-
ton in the new colonies give assurance
that a perfect reproduction of life on
the islands will be made even to the
Spanish bull-fight and the less harm
full sports of the Filipinos, Hawaiians
and Porto Ricans Native fine arts
will also be shown.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-11

OF Marlborough. for his son, William
K. Vanderbilt Jr. Securities amount
ing in value to 1000, 900 have been
turned over to the young man by his
father Miss Virginia Fair, the bride
to-be, is said 10 have $1,000, 600 in her
own right.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-11
4 BIG PRESENT.

NEW YORK, March 29.-The Even
ing World says: William X. Wander
bi1t has duplicated his wedding pre-
sent to his daughter Consuelo, Duchess
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-11
AMERICAN LOSS.

WASHINGTON, March 2S-A list
prepared IN the Office of the Adjutan1-
General shows the casualties in Manila
since February 4th TO be 157 killed and
S64 wounded
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-11
THE PURCHASER
Of a FASHIONABLE SUIT

OF a FASHIONABLE SUIT
presupposes the purchase of a FINE
HAT TO complete the harmony OF
dress. Our suits are stylish and dressy,
and our hats made to match. Suits
from $1,000 up. Spring Hats both in
straw, and felt from S1.00 up.
The varied styles, the wonderful
variety of silks, which mark the high
class neck-wear in our large stock, is
not a dream but veritable fact. Our
spring patterns have never been sur
passed in the history of neck dress
Whether style of silk or pattern, or
the most dressy or fashionable, we have
it. Prices from % cents up. Bat ties
Ascot, Four-in-hand, Club, Teck and
Imperials.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-12

many persons who attend operas and con-
certs from time to time for other reasons
than pure love of music are unable to re-
gard the singing ordinarily heard as any
thing more than performance. The singer
conveys to them the impression that he-or
she-is endeavoring to do all that is pos
sible with the vocal organs; that the music
is nothing more to them than an opportu-
nifty to display vocal skill and the words a
mere articulate convenience, since some
form of speech must be used For the musi-
cal philistne to say these things to the
professed music lover with reputation to
keep up is to be looked upon with pity and
to be metaphorically cast into outer dark
ness; but the unaffected delight with which
this real interpreter of words and music is
hailed by those who commonly affect to en-
joy and understand all music betrays the
fact there has been more or less pretense in
the matter and that they really felt lack
The philistine may take courage.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-12

button, having one portion OF the button Il,
sevved in the fabric OF the pocket ana the
other attached to the chain, sllgnt pres
sure on the parts locking them so that the
chain cannot be pulled out easily
Two Frenchmen have invented a new
method of stopping up shot holes III war
ships. water-tight compartments being ar
ranged around the hull. filled with COM
pressed bodies of elastic material Mnlch "a
paud as soon as water enters, hlllnS the
compartments and closing the hole
A Maine inventor has patented an inn
proved lamp chimney. which has a lip mold
ed on two sides of the base, with part of the
base left smooth for the passage of the
fingers of the burner. the chimney belng
turned around when on the burner until the
fingers clasp the lip and lock 1t IN place.
In an improved storm door the casing on
one side is of semi-circular shape, with two
doors pivoted on the opposite casing at an
angle which allows one door to swing free
from the curved casing at a time, the user
pulling the nearest door toward him ana
pushing the other out when he reaches 1t.
Sewer and other trenches are easily dug
by new machine, consisting of a rotating
wheel provided on its face with a series Of
automatic earth buckets which take up a
load of dirt from the bottom of the ditch
and discharge it at the top, the wheel being
carried by q movable frame and driven by
an engine.
A simple burglar alarm is formed of
wedge-shaped casing with spring bolt in
side set in line with the head of a cartridge,
a trigger depending from the under side to
release the bolt. To set the alarm the thin
of a door or window, with the trigger rest
ing the floor window sill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-12

humored. Mr.. Dobson, by the way. is
known among his immediate associates as
II. A. Dobson. He Is IN the British civil
service being employed at the Board of
Trade, with which he has been connected
since 1856 He is now in his sixtieth year
having passed his fifty-ninth Jan u.s. His
first Volume 'Poems: Vignettes in Rhvnoe .
was published in 1873, when he was in his
thiTty-third year.
Americans are to be favored in the au-
tumn with a glimpse Of a Dutch novelist
who is a great favorite in London. This is
Mr.. J. II. Van der Poorten Schwartz. bet
ter known as Maarten Martens. He will
cross the Atlantic for the first time TO have
a look at America, where his stories of Hol-
land life have been widely read, and as he
says himself have been unerringly under
stood. He has travelled widely in Europe,
but lives in a delightful old castle in Hol-
land, and ordinarily he is seen in London
curing the spring, where he has many liter
airy friends, Mr.. Barrie being perhaps the
most intimate among them. Having been
born in Holland, that Babel of modern
tongues, he is an accomplished linguist, and
can write with equal facility in many Ian
guageS, but his literary work has been done
almost exclusively in English. M. Maar
ten Martens is an artist without affecta
lions of manner, a man of strong religious
convictions and a most genial and accom-
plshed gentleman.
That the days are long past when English
literary workers led an unremittngly stu
dious and sedentary life is sufficiently shown
by an article on Authors at Play" in the
February number of Pearson's Magazine. 1t
seems that DR.. Conan Doyle is the most
all-around representative sportsman among
modern writer's. Sir Walter Besant, on the
other hand, believes that, owing to his
short sight, he enjoys fewer outdoor amuse
ments than any other man. Mr. J. M. Bar
RE, like DR.. Doyle. is an enthusiastic Crck-
eter. Nine. Sarah Grand bicycles. Mr..
Frankfort Moore rows and sails, Mr.. Rider
Haggard farms, Mr.. Max Pemberton hunts.
The bicycle, naturally enough, has attracted
most authors. from Mr. Thomas Hardy
downward. Mr.. Eden Phllpotts-more or
iginal than his fellows-grows lilies and
fishes for trout Mr.. Barry Pain is a gifted
gardener. and so are Miss Braddon and the
poet laureate. Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne Stays big
game, and Mr.. Hornung. like Mr. Swinburne,
enjoys swimming. Iota is among the au-
thors who habitually ride to hounds, and
Mr.. Zangwill, it seems. has taken to horse
back riding with as we are told, occasional
parenthetical falls. Mr.. Andrew Lang COLTS
and fishes, but, according to Mr.. George
Moore, never catches anything. Mr.. Kip
ling, as one would naturally expect, does
everything
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-12
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

What makes life dreary is the want of
motive-George Eliot.
1t is with thinkers as with snakes. Those
that cannot shed their skins die.-Nietzsche.
The hardest thing to find is an honest
partner for a swindle.-Her Majesty the
King.
As to whether It is better to use gotten"
than got we should say notten.-Roxbury
Gazette.
Some men make more noise in doing a
days work than others make in a lifetime.
Chicago News
A maid is always child until knowledge
of sorrow comes to make her woman.
Ashes of Empire.
A person is always startled when he hears
himself seriously called old for the first
time-O. w. Holmes.
1t is somewhat difficult to make the tradi-
lions of the hearthstone cluster about a
steam radiator.-Iife.
Upon careful examination it will be found
that this years resolutions broke in about
the same place as last years did.-Puck
Would it make us any more contented
with our own lot if we were permitted TO
he some one else for day2-Philadelphia
Timer.
we call ourselves a rich nation and we
are filthy and foolish enough to thumb each
others books out of circulating libraries
-Ruskin.
A man always likes to think that you
would grieve deeply for him, but he can't
see any sense in your grieving over any
other fellow Feminine Observer.
Nothing is so tranquiizing TO the mind
as good resolutions, made. as they usually
are at a time when il is impossible 10 put
them into practice.-Father and Son.
= 'Bus'nis is busnis amt part of the
golden rule. allow. but the way 1t gen'ally
runs fur $ I've found out, is Do unto the
other fellar the way he'd like 10 do unto
you, an do II fust. DAVID Harum.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-12
LITERARY NOTES.

Gilbert Parker, the novelist, gives to his
early years of newspaper work the credit for
the best part of his education for literary
work.
Edmund Clarence Stedman is a literary
man only by night. While attending to his
banking business he rigidly excludes all
other matters and will not even talk OF any
thing else.
Dr. John Watson Gan Maclaren) has now
finished his Life of Christ Dean Farrar
is busy on the sequel-based on studies in
Palestine-to his own Life OF Christ; II
this year.
"A Duet-With an Occasional Chorus" IS
the title of DR.. Conan Doyle's forthcoming
novel. 1t is mentioned as describing the
humors and incidents of the domestic life Of
young married pair--and as in some sort a
protest against the apparent belief OF novel
lists that only unhappy marriages turnlsn
suitable themes.
Thackeray confessed that the American
papers puffed him when here in a way to
make him blush. This has led to a digging
UP of old records, and an extract from the
Boston Courier of 1853 shows that Its read
ers were informed that Thackeray's lectures
were "a mere retailing of old anecdotes,
fragments without originality or any sense
OF Judgment containing nothing when any
body with file of old newspapers and mag
azines might not have said
The New York Sun gives a four-column
review to Mrs. Ida Harper's biography of
Susan 3. Anthony, and says, incidentally:
To-day American women are compare
lively free. being subjected only TO political
disabilities, while, even from these, they are
exempt in some of the States. Ihere is Just
one woman in the country VINO, throughout
the half century during which the change
has taken place, gave all her time. all her
powers and all her money to bring about
the result. 1t was high time Tor her bog
raphy to be written, and we are glad that
the task has been carefully ana sympathet-
ically performed"
Kipling, in speaking of the Professional :
says: THAT poem gave me more trouble
than anything ever wrote. had promised
the Times Qondon) a poem on the jubilee,
and when it became due L had written moth
ing that satisfied me. The Times began 10
want that poem badly. and sent letter after
letter asking for it, ] made many more at
tempts. but no further progress tlnaiIy
the Times began sending telegrams 20 1
shut myself in my room with a determine
ton TO stay there until ] had written a
Jubilee poem. Sitting down with all my
previous attempts before me, l searcned
through those dozens of sketches till at last
/ found just one line | hked. Ihai was
! Lest we forget Round these words the
| 'Recessionar was written.
Austin Dobson to whom vas ascribed
some facetious and slurring lines linking to-
gether the names of Boxer. Poe. Longfellow
and Tabb. published in the Bookman foT
January. Indignantly denies their authorship
and the Booknlan now ascribes them to Air
| Lang They certainly do not resemble any
/ thing ever written BY Mr.. Dohson. whose
] light and graceful verse IS always good
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-12

1t is impossible for writer as versatile
as Mr. fipling to please everybody. Amer
lean readers are not a all pleased with his
series of English schoolboy tales now run
ming in a current magazine, the complaint
being made that they are slangy and in a
measure unintelligible. On the other hand,
English readers grumble over the madness
of his American slang" A writer in Mac
Milan's Magazine quotes this passage from
his locomotive story, ".0O7,' as a sample of
his "jargon and silly talk" i've trouble
enough in my own DIVISION" said a lean,
light suburban loco, with very shiny brake
shoes. My commuters wouldn't rest till
they got parlor-car. They've hitched her
back of all, and she hauls worsen a snow
pillow. I'll snap her off some day, sure and
then they'll blame any one except their
fool selves. They'll be askin' me to haul
vestibuled next" The writer then goes on
to say, Indignantly: Now, in this / do not
know what brake-shoes, commuters, or
vestibuied may be. and as Mr.. Kiplng has
already surfeited me with strange knowI-
edge and unfamiliar terms, l would not
thank him to tell me. 1t is enough that he
should let loose upon US all the unknown
possibilities of our own tongue without Dor
rowing denominations from America Now
every American understands perfectly all
the terms used in this locomotive tale and
his first disposition will be to regard criti-
cisms on it as very unreasonable. 1t may
be well, however. for both classes of
gruinblers to consider the matter from what
may reasonably be regarded as Mr.. Kip
llng's point Of view. It seems likely that in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-12

Columbia river late in November, 1905. Ser
geant Floyd was the first American soldier
to lay down his life within the limits of the
Louisiana purchase, which had been made
in 1903. and he was buried near the present
site of Sioux City, Ia. 1t seems almost in
credible that there are many persons still
living who were born before this expedition
started and who have lived to see the viii
derness which it traversed and which then
swarmed with Indians and wild animals.
converted into many States. the home Of
millions of prosperous people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-12
PRETENsE IN Music.

A young French woman who is giving
concerts in New York is, according to the
unanimous testimony OF the critics and lis
teners, sffording a revelation of the posi-
bilities of song singing. 1t appears that her
voice is not especially good and her method
of tone productions is faulty, but she is
woman of such intelligence that she inter-
prets not only the spirit of the music, but of
the text. AS explained by one close observer.
she has studied every phase, every clause,
every accent. and all the fine meaning of
words with reference not to their musical
utterance. but to their own intrinsic value
and their value in relation to what precedes
and what follows. This once accomplished,
she has studied the music in its relation 10
the text. and has sought through the music
to give to the tex the same value as music
as 1t would have as literature Another
writer speaks OF her singing as IAN angelic
marriage Of words and melody" A good
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-12

The extension of combinations in so many
lines of production, which are called trusts,
is due to the large amount of capital in the
country The promoters of trusts are CAPT
talizing their combinations. This means
that all of the owners of factories, or as
many of them as can be induced to sell
their plants, do so. Stock and bonds are
sold to set the money to purchase the
plants which go into the trusts. At the
outset. as in the Sugar Trust the property
IS sold or put into the combination at prices
above its real value. 1t is said to be the
same with more recent combines" The
stock is sold to whoever will purchase. The
fact that many large combinations have
been made leads to the conclusion that
much money has been invested in that
class of enterprises. AS is usual in such
cases. the stocks are sold upon the basis
of large dividends. When it turns out that
there will be small or no dividends, thou
sands of purchasers will find that they have
paid for valueless stocks. and. consequent
~ lost their money.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-12

Those who may have regarded with favor
the proposition to build an asylum for idiots
and the incurable insane for $4,000 will
doubtless change their minds when they
find that the smallest asylum in the State
has cost nearly 100000. If they will read
the statements of the superintendent of
the existing hospitals, which have been
given to the ways and means committees,
they will find that better results can be ac-
complished in connection with present hos
pitfalls for less than one-fifth the money a
new hospital will cost
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-12

A bin has been reported favorably in the
national House OF Representatives to ap-
propriate $4,000 for the erection of a monu-
ment over the remains of Sergeant Charles
Floyd. a member of the celebrated Lewis
and Clark expedition. This government ex-
petition. led by Captains Lewis and Clark,
Ia 1894 was the first exploration OF the Mis-
souri, river and beyond, and the first one TO
cross the continent. The credit Of organic
ing the expedition and of its important re-
suits in the way OF exploration and ge-
ographical discovery was due TO President
Jefferson, who never crossed the AlIe-
ghenies The route was Up the Missouri
river to It's headwaters and then across the
continent. It was journey OF great peril
as well as great discoveries, and the official
account OF II seems to-day like Wild piece
or action, so changed are the conditions.
Tbe expedition started about the middle Of
May, 1904, and reached the mouth Of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-12

The Massachusetts Legislature is consid-
ering proposition to do away with the
nominating convention in that State as far
as possible To that end it is proposed that
all candidates for the Legislature shall be
nominated by direct vote of the men be-
longing to a party at their primaries or
caucuses, as they are called in Massachu-
sets. 1t is in the convention of delegates
that the evil is accomplished. What is true
in Massachusetts is true elsewhere. The
primary election law should provide, among
other things, that as many candidates as
possible should be selected by direct vote
of the people at the primaries.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-12

1t is announced by the Department of Ag-
riculture that its scientists are planning to
give us an orange which may be cultivated
with success in more northern localities
than this fruit is now grown. This result
as an experiment is due to cross-fertiliza-
ton. This has been accomplished by cross
ing hardy Japanese orange with the diff
ferent varieties of the South. The result is
said to be an exceedingly delicate fruit. The
government has now over 1,1G0 of these
hybrid growths in its greenhouses. 1t is
claimed that this hybrid can be cultivated
as far north as Canada.