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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-18

the highway and watCl TIE glorious
procession move by. Ii was said n she
Senate lew days ago: Across the
waters of the ocean there came % the
listening ears OF humanity the cry of
the oppressed. The eagle Of Liberty
went forth and paused in his fight
above land whose people were strug-
Cling 10 be free
The sight OF naked little dears of
both sexes would bring a blush to the
cheek OF the eagle of Liberty. Wher-
ever the Flag goes it means trousers
for ALL
Contrast then the slow success OF
missionaries in these Islands, who in
fifty Years only partially established
with persistent energy the use OF cot
ton goods in preventing infants from
becoming an offense to the sensitive
Anglo-oaxon eye,-contrast it with the
quick success of the missionary with
a bayonet, waio before the gun barrels
have cooled off from the heat of battle.
drives the small boys into breeches.
and shows the world that the White
Man carries his burden well.
To be sure, there are several mil
lions OF little black Nudes in the
Southern States, whom Imperialism
cannot reach. 1t strikes for reform On
the outside, in the hope that it Will
work back to the inside.
Let us rejoice with DR.. Bishop that
the day of the anti-nude jubilee is at
hand, when it will be proudly said,
there is no naked skin under the
Flag"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-18
1.-THE MAN IN A POSITION TO
KNOW

The facts regarding the disturbance
IN the Executive Council, which Min
lister Damon's friend gave to the pub
lie, do not yet appear. a. charge of
conspiracy" must stand on some fact
or facts. These facts are the evidence
who is I'm a position to know" has
given rather a malicious color to the
charge which he was willing and per-
haps anxious to publish in order to
avoided. Possibly he may have had
some grievance of his own, which sug-
gested this way of getting even''' with
him.
lmow" preferred to violate the conf
dence Mr.. Damon placed in him, and
used the information as a club over
the Presi dent.
President Dole refuses TO throw any
Light upon it. or say what he did when
told that he ought to be ashamed of
himself" his motive for refusing to
disclose may be a good one. But why
SHOULD he not tell the public, whose
representative he is, what really hap
pened? The man lin a position to
know" furnished the information with
the intention of injuring him if he
could do so. However, Mr.. Dole may
prefer to stand on his character and
maintain ''dignified silence" Mean
while he is disappointing those who
satiOnal or otherwise, when it is gen
Grated in the Executive chamber.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-18
.ka-kSt ball

The championship basket ball game
between the girls OF PunahOu and ka-
mehameha will take place this after
noon at O'Clock on the grounds OF
the Kamehameha Girls School. Pre-
vious TO the basket ball some cham
pionship games OF tennis will be play
Ell. Both the tennis and basket ball
are open TO the public.
There viii be no baseball this after
noon Ii is postponed on account OF
the basket ball.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-18

The few poems by Edwin Markham
printed this morning are given in
what is believed TO be the order of
Hoe" The solid commentator which
the Advertiser received for presenta-
ton of the masterpiece warrants pub
LEGATION of the poems given in this
issue.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-18

Ladies' OF Honolulu call up phone "A.
the New England Steam Bakery and
Candy Co. who will furnish you with
the finest line of ice cream. sherbets,
bread. pastry, candies, etc, made in the
city. Special features are April Fool
candy and Easter egg novelties T.
Oswald Lutted Manager
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-18
IMPERIALISM AND THE NUDE

Gen. Guy V. Henry, the Military
Governor OF Porto Rico, has issued an
order that the naked children of the
Island must lie clothed. This order
will give rare pleasure to our good and
sensitive fellow citizen, DIR. Bishop who
has from time immemorial offered HIM
self as wall of fire against the pro-
gresS of the nude.
A correspondent of one of the New
York city journals says that the moth
ers of the naked little dears of Porto
Rico were in CONSERVATION, when the
American soldiers, acting as police
men, or cops" began quietly to arrest
the innocent nudes, while upon the
streets i'm the simple raiment of the
lilies of the field But they submitted
to the reformation, when they clearly
understood that it was done in the in
terests of higher civilization and I'm
perialism
Kipling did not contemplate this
phase of the White mans burden, in
describing the sublime mission of the
Anglo Saxon towards the darker races.
Take up the White Mans burden
No iron rule of Kings,
tBlrt toll OF serf and sweeper
,}The tale of common things
And to this should be added the put
ting of naked little boys, in brooches
throughout the conquered tropics.
Corporal "A. p Witt, one of the po-
licemen in Porto Rico, says the cor
respondent, could speak only three
Spanish words, namely, 'malo" (badD;
''bueno'' (good). and Isl Senior" CYes,
Sir)
He captured, one day, a naked little
boy, aged four, and dragged him to his
mother "Malo," shouted the corporal.
pointing to the little nude. Isl, Senior,
replied the mother, assuming at once
that he had been bad little boy and
had insulted the American Flag, and
she began to whip him. The corporal
shouted "malo, malo, he must wear
clothes So the corporal in kindness
picked up an old shirt waist and
wrapped it around the boy, and ex-
claimed, 'bueno, bueno!" The mother
then understood what the March of I'm
perialism meant.
Now "malo'' in these Islands signi-
fies; a somewhat scanty article of dress
in universal fashion among the male:
in the early days, which any one o
the old lkamaainas may describe, ant
which may be occasionally seen at thi:
day in the remote districts.
If the military forces OF the United
States should supervise the style o
dress here, as an obligation imposed
by the White Mans burden, and a sol
dier in uniform, bearing the Flag
should shout "malo" to the mothers
little natives nude, and there are FEY
OF them, it would revive at once tn
tse OF this tropical and picturesqu
garment of the indigenous inhabitant:
IL would revise the fashion OF tn
early dress, when Kamehameha J., &C
cording TO Campbelps chronicle, writ
ten in 1910, dressed in a 'malo," WORK
ed in a taro patch, furnishing an e>
ample of industry and thrift.
The be 1ldered mothers OF Port
Rico i'm their ignorance did not under
stand the word. Such is the effect {
Spanish rule.
In the stately March OF Imperialism
the brown races must understand ths
little boys cannot stand in nudity b
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-18
VIGILANCE.

We will serve free OF charge glass
OF this wonderful natural Spring
water at our Soda Counter to al who
care to ccue and test It's virtues We
deliver the water to your home In case
lots at $3.50 for 90 pints. $3.50 for so
quarts.
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DUE:

Ask your family physician abou: the
water. and IL he is honest he will en-
dorse its use.
All who have drank the water speak
in the highest OF terms for Il.
This climate demands the use of
such a water and you cannot AFFORD TO
be without It
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-18

Anything about shipping interests a
heavy majority OF the residents of this
place Items showing advancement in
both naval and merchant fleets seem
to be particularly sought after The
enthusiasm over Improvements is
great, but it should be remembered
that this is the day of better and
smarter things both ashore and afioat
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-18
NEW PROCESS
BLUE FLAME OIL STOVE.

4 sort OF dread may prevail among
housewives that perhaps these stoves
might explode. but We can honestly say
that they are perfectly safe IN every
home. To endorse our statement Just
have n talk with any insurance agent:
he will tell you at once that he would
rather insure = home where these
stoves are used than issue a policy on
4 home where different stoves are used.
You wonder why the Blue Flame
stove should be better than any other.
Wen tell you. In this country the mat
ter OF fuel Is n very large stem OF ex-
pense. As you have turned over a
new leaf since the New Year and In
tend economIzIng where you never
thought OF before. you may begin on
your coal and wood. Il Is n positive
fact that the BLUE FLAME uses
only about one-half the quantity OF fuel
any other stove does. Another grea;
advantage Is that there Is no smoke or
smell.
These stoves are placed on rollers
and are so light they can be easily
moved about. We have them IN two
sizes. one with two burners with oven
attached and the other with three
burners with oven. THE price Of these
stoves IS SIC. ses5o and s.5.Ool. We
can't tell you all about them; the beS;
thing to do Is to come and look a;
them.
We are selling the Celebrated
FISHER STEEL RANGE for wood and
coal at $500.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-18
THE PASSING HOUR.

Cabinet Crisis has served for one
thing to rather round out the history
of the Republic.
According TO some OF the experts
en- values the S. S. City OF Columbia
is a veritable phantom ship.
Admiral Dewey is doing very effec-
tive and steady work for a sick man.
The matter OF a Flower Show, say as
an enterprise for charitable purposes
and a fine social affair. is respectfully
referred to Mr. Allen Herbert and the
ladies.
1t is said the new President of
France is in favor of disposing of the
DreyfuS case on the principles of alb
solute justice If this is done, some
of the greatest liars of the age have
the day Of their punishment near at
hand.
The few American troops that are
in the Philippines are doing more and
better fighting than stands to the cred
it of the land forces that operated
in Cuba 1t is hoped they will be ac-
corded fullest recognition for the great
services
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-18
ScrofuIa
Swollen Glands, Scrofuia Sores. nio
Disease, Soils, PinnpIcs, Erup-
tons Tell tho Story Dreadful
Consequences OF Impure Blood.

Certainly scrofuIa. IL anything, may -
called the advertisement OF foul blood.
IL i the scourgc Of the world
painful, facilitating, stubborn. Outward
applications do not cure. Emoll!cuis
may pailiate, they cannot abolish the evil.
There Is one sure way out, and that l. to-
eliminate the faint from the blood. For
this purpose Hoods sarsaparilla l. at-o-
lutely without an equal.
81 have taken Hoods SarsapariIla for
scrofulous humor and impure blood and
am now almost entirely cured OF the crup-
tions with which I have been afflicted for
the past year. My face, chest and back
were badly broken out" FRED Il. ORD
WAY, Woodstock, Vt.
Hoods s ssr;;is
l. the best-in fact the on. Tru. Hioo,i Purifier.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-18
EXERCISE

Our doctors are busy treating pa
tients who are suffering from COM
plants, more especially malaElal dis
orders, which will be materially bene-
fitted If they drink water that Is pure
and possesses curative features, "a does
Bartlett Spring Water.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-18
TIMELY TOPICS
February 2Ist. 1899.

Every steamer. rs well as sailing ves-
sci. brings Us something useful and Of
ten ornamental. After repeated trials
We have n last found the article ws
wanted: Il Is now offered 20. sale 20
the public OF Honolulu a; same prices
as sold in the States.
We are anxious to place IN every
household. the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-18

PURE
WATER.

II the advice given IN those three
words is needed. good health will fol-
low. City water is not good for many
reasons, principally, because Il Is con-
taminated with vegetable and putrid
matter OF all descriptions. A simple
analysis shows this to be fact.
The Republican., 1899-10-12
HEALTH REQUIREMENTS.
They Are Few in Number, But Must
he Strictly Observed at
All Times.

The requirements of health can be
counted on the fingers of one hand
They are good air, good food, suitable
clothing, cleanliness and exercise and
rest.
The first two requirements affect the
blood, and as the blood circulates all
over the body, every part of the body,
including the brain, is affected.
Fresh air affects the purity of the
blood. The freshest air is out of DOORS
and it is the duty of every one who
wishes to be healthy to spend certain
amount of time in the open air
Good food is not necessarily expensive
food.
Exercise and rest should alternate
and balance each other. 1t is quite pos
sible to take too much exercise, and
this side of the question must be guard
ed against just as carefully as the other
Women, as a rule, do not rest sufficient
ly. Every woman should try during
the day to get few minutes of rest,
even if it interferes with her regular
work. 1t is impossible for her to attend
to the health and welfare of her fam
lily if her own health suffers from over
work and lack of resin. Y. World.
The Republican., 1899-10-12

In the winter camp at Winchester
the officers dubbed together for social
amusement, and there were horse rae
ing, billiard playing, glee clubs and
what not. The programme would not
have been complete without poker
clubs. 1t wasn't poker playing for fun,
but for fresh, crisp greenbacks. 1t was
q game tabooed to the rank and file,
though indulged in on the sly, but in
every fifth hut occupied by the Off
GERS there was a nightly gathering of
colonels, majors, captains and heuten-
ants, and many an officer got up from
the tables with empty pockets. There
was general understanding that every
player was an officer and a gentleman,
but the news came sitting down
through the sergeants and the cor
porals that this was not always the
case. Indeed, before the winter was
over half a dozen designations were
sent in because the holders of commits
sions had been detected cheating. at
cards Our own colonel as we Sot IT,
III tl:nr alooe s-~-4. these gather
ings, though being a conspicuous fig
ure in others, but there were tall sto-
ries of the amount of money lost or
won by our company officers. The men
of the company were pretty evenly
divided in the matter. The affirmative
side of the house was represented by
old Bill Hastings, third corporal, who
had spent years and years in the lum-
ber camps of Michigan, and could play
any game of cards with his eyes shut.
Boys, let 'em go it" was his advice.
"Tve bin in a game of poker where a
pair O ten spots won me 5000 in cash,
and I've bin in one where ! held a full
house and lost everything down to my
The Republican., 1899-10-12
PERSPIRATION IS GOOD.
IL saves Many People from Sickne sH
by Cleansing the
System,

In these hot days many people com-
plain loudly that they perspire too free
ly, little thinking that to that fact they
owe the good health they enjoy and the
immunity from heat prostration or
sunstroke. Perspiration is essential to
health. a person in good health never
suffers from the heat or the cold unless
unduly exposed. One may be incon-
venienced, but it is a condition of health
rather to be sought than to be avoided.
loo much of a good thing, however, is
not desirable. Proper care of the body,
proper diet, proper exercise, with prop
er bathing, will produce the normal
condition-in which condition the heat
wall not oppress any one. Let me es-
peclally caution against the too sudden
checking of perspiration. Millions of
canals and tubes from the inner part
of the body open their little mouths at
the surface and through these chan
nels, as ceaseless as the flow of time, a
fluid containing the wastes and impuri-
ties of the system is passing outward
and is emptied out of the skin.
This fluid must have exit or we die
in few hours. If it does not have vent
at the surface of the body it must have
some internal escape. Nature abhors
shocks as she does a vacuum. Heats
distents the mouths of these ducts and
promotes a larger and more rapid flow
of the contained fluid; on the other
hand, cold contracts them and the fluid
is at first arrested, then damned up
and then it rebounds. If these mouths
are gradually closed nature has time
to adapt herself to the circumstances
by opening her channels into the great
internal waterways of the body and no
harm follows; hence the safety and wis
dom of cooling off slowly after any eX-
ertion and the danger of cooling off
rapidly under the same circumstances.
Encourage perspration, under proper
conditions and with proper precautions.
Always keep the surface of the body
warm and clean and at the end of the
season you will be mentally, morally
and physically sound.-Chicago Chron-
| icle,
The Republican., 1899-10-12

there was something in it. Things oc-
CURED almost at once to show that the
brigadier was down on the Third. Por-
tionS of our regiment were sent this
way and that on scouting duty in the
toughest of weather, and with every
body knowing that there wasn't con-
federate within 20 miles of us. An eX-
cuse was found to make us tear down
our huts and rebuild them. All the de-
tails for the rough and hard work
seemed to be made from the Third, and
it was the talk through the whole brig
ade that the brigadier had trick up his
sleeve for us when the campaign
opened. l am sure he hoped Col. Bell
would be forced to resign, but he had
hold of the wrong man. We of the rank
and file growled and kicked and cursed,
but our colonel preserved his placidity
and obeyed orders to the letter.
Spring came at last and the cam
paign opened, Early was too strong
for Sheridan for the first two or three
months, but we held him back and
fought him in all the valleys. Some
Ills II was oL Shll Will Only
few hundred men engaged; again it
was a lively little fight, in which each
side had a brigade in battle line. We
had plenty of excitement, and plenty
to occupy our thoughts, but we of the
Third did not forget the brigadier's
threat. You had only to look at that
set jaw and cold face of his to realize
that his enmity was deep and lasting
and that no ordinary sacrifice would
appease him. At Kernstown he thought
his hour of triumph had come. He
flung the Third regiment full against
Jackson's center, believing we were
going to meet five times our strength
and must be decimated, but for once in
his life the confederate chieftain had
been conquered by circumstance. His
ragged veterans were strung out for
three miles, and we struck his center
with such dash as to break and drive
| it back in confusion. 1t was a pretty
little fight, and one to be proud of, but
though we received the congratulations
of the whole brigade, the brigadier had
| a new peg in for our colonel.
The sight of the generals hard face
as he rode along our front stopped our
cheering, and l heard the captain of
my company whisper to another:
God! but what bitterness that man
has in his heart! He won't be satisfied
until this regiment is wiped off the
face of the earth!"
Three weeks later our brigade was
/ pushed over into the Luray valley to
capture a small force and wreak de-
struction on the growing crops. The
confederates were alert, and could not
be taken by surprise. AS we fought
them in desultory way, they were
heavily reinforced, and one day we
found our 5000 men facing at least
5000. The enemy had strong position,
too, and every man of us, from the
The Republican., 1899-10-12

old clay pipe. It's a mighty enticin'
game, and if they wasn't playin' poker
they might be doin' sunthin' wuss.'
The negative side was represented by
Joe Brunt, second sergeant, who had
been a farmer all his life. When he
heard of the goings on he said:
You jest lemme tell you that there
amt no good in it, and the Lord won't
prosper no army made up of gamblers.
l don't say there's any great sin in
mumblety-peg or marbles, and a feiler
kin play a game of checkers or fox
and-geese and not want to burn some
body's house down, but I'm bettin' this
army will be licked out of it's butes
the first fight we hev in the spring. 1t
will be judgment sent upon it,
Among the heaviest winners at any
of the tables was the brigadier of the
Second brigade. That he was fighter
he had proved over and over again,
but we had it early in his career that
he was not popular with his subordi-
nate officers. 1t was given out that he
lacked polish and education, and had
secured his place through political in
huence. That he held it by being a
fighter was to his credit, but for all
that he was more or less ostracized.
The general opinion of the rank and
file was fifty expressed by Sergt. LomaX
when he said:
Boys, the general fights like the
devil, and there's no getting over that,
lint / xHn11llnft tn inf ort-
nership with him after the war is over.
He's sharp enough to steal the claws
off cat, and there's heap O wicked
ness stored up there somewhere"
From an army corps down to the
weakest company it's all family af
fair One officer sizes up another, and
the private sizes up all and is bound
to have his opinion. One day in the
last month of winter we in the SER
geant's tent heard some news through
Sergt. Frayne. 1t was being whis-
pered about among the officers that
the brigadier was a sly one at cards,
and that deftness of hand helped him
to win oftener than luck.
'And look here, boys" continued the
sergeant, dropping his voice to a whis-
per, hes getting a string on our
colonel! He's jest layin' himself out to
be chummy, and they say he's as soft
and smiling as a born brother. That
don't mean but one thing. 1t means
he hopes to ring Col. Bell in on the
poker business and clean him out. The
colonel is rich, he is, and the brigadier
amt any too blamed good to beat him
out of his last dollar"
"Well, it amt our lookout growled
the orderly sergeant.
"Of course not, but we've a right to
talk We don't want to see our own
colonel made a monkey Of"
"Then let him keep out O. poker.
Mebbe, however, he'll skin the briga.
dier. and that wouldn't be half bad"
The Republican., 1899-10-12
ON THE LEFT FLANK
BY CHARLES B. LEWIS
Copyrighted.

Sergt. Frayne had reported the gos-
sip correctly. The brigadier general
had been cleaning out the colonels and
majors and captains in great shape.
Some OF them were old hands at the
game, but for every dollar they won
they lost two. 1t wouldn't do to come
out and say that the brigadier was
cardsharper, but men shook their
heads and wondered and grumbled over
his strange luck, and one after another
found excuses for not sitting down with
him. 1t was true that he was after
Col. Bell, and it was true that he caught
him. He found a novice who entered
the game simply to oblige, but who dog
gedly hung on when he found himself
losing, and consequently lost more. In
a week, so it was reported and believed,
Col. Bell lost to the brigadier over
$1,000. That sum might have been
doubled in another week but for an
incident. More by accident than de-
fNgn, the colonel caught the brigadier
icheating, and the play broke up in hot
words. Every effort was made to sup
PIess the gossip, DuI IL Tedcneu the
ears of the commander in chief, and
he raised such row that there was
no more poker. The harm had been
done, however. Col. Bell had said to
the brigadier in presence of witnesses:
"Sir, caught you cheating, and de-
nounce you as a sharper and a rascal"
And the brigadier, hot-faced, cha
grined and cursing his own careless
ness, had replied:
"Ill make those words cost you your
life or your commission before three
months pass BY"
We got the story in all sorts of ways,
but however it came, we had to believe