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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-10-12

The physician always contemplates
with interest a box of apples in the
grOcer's store. All" he reflects. Par
adise-Eve-the apple-sin and dis
Observation-Disclosures rise of the medical
profession-behind it at a respectful
distance the lawyers, and the minis
ters-all dealing with doubtful Ques-
lions, but all entitled to a living out
of sin, disease and death-au three pro-
fessions founded on the Fall of Man.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-10-12

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-10-12
Fishers Steel RANGES

Give satisfaction wherever used. Our
stock is large and weii-assorted one.
ranging" from the Small Family" to
Hotel and Restaurant sizes.
From "Pele's" heat to "Kiondyke''
cold is but n step. especially when one
of orr
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-10-12
RefrigeratOrS

Is kept In the home with one OF the
aforesaid ranges. Our
Ice Chests
Are built on the latest and most ap-
proved styles and are as useful for
keeping" things In as a safe. Food
is always fresh and sweet when one In
used.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-08

the statesmen simply became eligible
to receive their salaries, while they
had no opportunity to legislate and
carry out the popular will.
1t is provided by the constitution that
the congress shall assemble on the first
Monday of each December; and by that
constitutional provision the Fifty-siXth
congress will convene on Monday, De-
cember 4, 1899, 13 months after the
national elections which resulted in its
choice by the people.
During the intervening 13 months
history has been made very rapidly,
new issues have arisen, new policies in
augurated, and yet the people have had
no opportunity to express their will
concerning what legislation shall be
enacted. You will thus see that too
long period elapses between the ex-
preston of the will of the people at the
ballot box and the assembling of their
chosen public servants for the purpose
of carrying out the sovereign Will. The
men who will take the oath of office on
the first Monday in December are really
far removed from the people, because
they were elected upon issues which are
rapidly fading into oblivion; and the
people have had no opportunity this
year to express their desires concern
ing national legislation.
The congressional directory gives the
names, political affiliations and short
biographies of all the senators and rep
resentatives. From this publication it
is ascertained that out of $50 members
of the national house of representatives
there are 81 who have never before
served in congress. Almost one-third
of the members are entirely new to the
intricacies of national legislation. 1t
is fair to presume that very few of them
will be heard in public discussions and
only about a score of them will accom-
plish anything in the way of legislation.
Thirteen months have passed away
since these gentlemen were elected, and
yet they have had no opportunity to
gain any experience and have not been
of any substantial value to their peo,
pie. In this manner the will of the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-08
LEAKAGE OF TIRES.
French Scientist Explains Some OF
the Causes to which Defntion
Is Attributable.

Every cyclist has noticed the slow
valve indicates no leakage under the
most severe tests. NJ. d'Arsonval, of the
College of France, has recently ana
lyzed the air in a bicycle tire after sew
eral mutations, and finds that ii con-
tains a large proportion of nitrogen.
Air is n mixture of 81 parts of oxygen
and 40 of nitrogen. The oxygen slowly
penetrates the rubber, so that tire
loses about a fifth part of its imitation,
more or less quickly, according to the
composition of the rubber" NJ. d'Ar-
sonval says, as reported in the Literary
Digest, that "all cyclists agree that a
newly-inflated tire under a pressure of
two to six atmospheres becomes de-
flated little by little, even when it shows
no loss when placed under water. One
cannot see how the air gets out. He
finds that this mysterious deflation is
not continuous; it becomes slower as
the air is pumped in again and the pres
sure maintained constant. If the gas in
the tire is analyzed at this moment, it
will be found that it is almost entirely
deprived of its oxygen. 1t is almost pure
nitrogen. Thus we are manufacturing
nitrogen merely by pumping up our BIZ
cycle tires. The oxygen is absorbed
in part by the rubber, and partly es-
capes through it,"
Possibly this may lead to the discov-
cry of n cheap apparatus for the separa-
tion of the oxygen and nitrogen of the
air, although it has long been known
that different gases pass through the re-
tanning walls of a receptacle at differ
ent rates. Again, it may he found worth
while to initiate bicycle tires with pure
nitrogen in the first place. The action
of the two gases may be understood,
if we imagine a lot of cannon balls and
lot of marbles, all mutually repel-
lent, confined in n tube some hundred
thousand miles in diameter, and all
dartng back and forth and never COM
ing in contact, or coming within a
miles distance of each other. The
warmer it is, the livelier the motions of
the balls, which represent the atoms of
the gases. The walls of the tube are
of thick, loosely-woven stuff, with
meshes large enough TO allow the mar
bles to pass through. The continual
impact of the balls on the tube keeps
it distended and elastic. In time, many
of the marbles-representing the atoms
of oxygen-strike the walls of the tube
just right and pass through. If the
tube is properly woven none of the can
non balls can get out. Thus, the bicycle
tire is sort of atom strainer.
This consideration ought to increase
our respect for bicycle tire, and lessen
our impatience when we find that it has
become Debated. ford Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-08
How to Mark n wheel.

The following tip is one of the best
we have come across, for identifying
your machine in case it gets stolen:
Write your name and address, or other
means of Identification, on card OF
piece of celluloid, and then place it in
one of the tubes of your machine, to
the shape of which ii readily conforms
preferably the tube between the sad
dlepost and bracket, as nothing is need
ed to accomplish this beyond taking
out the saddlepost. Colors may be
changed, marks and numbers obT1ter-
ated, and all other devices used to dis
guise the wheel, yet should you ever
have chance TO prove your property
it is readily done, to the amazement and,
discontinue of the wrongful possessor.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-08

change, and 1 heard that Capt. or Maj.
Hurd was again with his regiment, but
1 had not seen him since the Libby epi
sode until he stepped out of his tent as
the commanding officer of the Second
Kentucky, to meet 500 excited and in
dignant men, asking question that
might lead to the manifestation of a
mutinous spirit. / wondered what the
man who had been so cool in making an
escape from prison would say and do.
"He stood before the excited men
with the same assurance and air of au-
thority exhibited that day in Richmond,
and felt that he would carry his point.
He said, courteously: "My opinion is,
men, that you are entitled to discharge
May 10, but the war department, hav-
ing only our three-year muster rolls on
file, has decided that you are not en-
titled TO discharge until June 8. This is
a disappointment to me, but have been
in the habit of obeying the orders of a
government which the confederates
will tell you is too strong to be resisted.
Thisis the whole case. There is no point
open for discussion. can only say that
you will be treated fairly, and, as your
commanding officer, ask you TO return
to your quarters There were nc
cheers, no remarks. The men dispersed
quietly, and there was no manifestation
whatever of mutinous it."-Chica
go Inter Ocean.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-08
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STORY OF AN OLD LETTER.
A Choice hit of Unwrittcn Army His
tory Recalled by the Resur-
rccted MissiVe.

az found an old letter in the garret
the other day." said the doctor, Chat re-
called a choice bit of unwritten army his
tory. The letter was written on May 2,
1864, the day the men of the Second Ken
tucky infantry, in camp in Ooltewah,
Tenn, marched in orderly column tothe
colonel's headquarters, and asked why
they were not to be discharged May 10,
three years from the date of their mus
ter-in.
"The First and Second Kentucky reg
iments were organized at Camp Clay,
o. Many of the companies had been or
ganized as early as April 30, and when
the men were sworn into the service
MAY 10, for three months, it was under
stood that enlistment would date from
April 80. But early in June the regi-
ments were reorganized for the three
years service, and mustered June s, on
the promise that the term of service
would date from May 10. When the
matter was submitted to the war de-
partment in 1864, the secretary decided
on the muster rolls on file that the term
of enlistment would not expire until
June s.
"When the decision was announced
there was great excitement in the two
regiments, and the men of the Second
Kentucky waited on their colonel as
sort of committee of the whole. The un-
Usual procedure called to the quarters
of the Second Kentucky all the unen-
gagged officers and men in camp,
and 1 was among them. When the flap
of the colonel's tent was thrown aside
expected to see Col. Sedgwick step out.
Butinstead of the boyish figure of Sedg-
wick there strobe forward a tall, firmly
built, resolute man, wearing a lieuten-
ant colonel's shoulder straps. | was
startled, because l had seen that same
man carry out bold scheme of escape
from Libby prison.
"While l was in the officers quarters
at Libby, confederate surgeons came in
occasionally to look after the ailing or
the sick. My recollection is that each
surgeon or hospital steward wore on his
arm a green ribbon, which passed him
through the streets of Richmond, max
geon, in the performance of some uneX-
pected service, dropped the ribbon from
his arm, and a prisoner known as Maj.
Hurd caught it up and hid it about his
person. Two minutes later Hurd tied
the ribbon on his own arm, and,
Strengthening himself, walked with an
authoritative air past the guards and
through the streets of Richmond, max
ing good his escape.
"Those who saw Hurd start for the
entrance could scarcely believe their
eyes when they saw him walk out un-
challenged. 1, for one, expected to see
him come back in five minutes, but he
never came back. l was set at liberty
through the slower process of eX-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-08
NEW cHAINLEss WHEEL.

struction is used at the hanger and OH
the single stay is mounted double
beveled gear. The front bevel engages
with the driving gear while the back
bevel engages with a pinion placed at
the opposite side of the machine. The
shaft of this pinion is journaled in the
crown. The pinion has crank pin and
the other end of it's shaft has n crank
the two being set at 90 degrees to each
other. Similarly positioned crank pins
are mounted upon the hub of the rear
wheel and rods connect the two sets of
pins.-Cycling Gazette.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-08

it might not. The people would have
been practically powerless to carry out
their undivided will and desire against
the tyrannical and cruel nation which
had so affronted the republic and SO
outraged Christian civilization.
You will thus see that the time is
ripe for an amendment to the constitu-
tion which will require the congress TO
assemble in a reasonable time after the
people have elected their senators and
representatives. In these days OF
rapid action and of marvellous progress
it is anomalous, and out of tune with
our institutions, that the will of the
people should be so long delayed as to
be almost wholly thwarted.
During the past two weeks the city
has been filing up with statesmen and
their families, and with the innumer-
able retinue of people having interest
in various measures which will be
brought forward for congressional con-
sideration. The new members are
seeking boarding houses and settling
down, not to legislation, but to the
study of legislation. The new members
are expected to take back seats, and fol-
low the leadership of the men whose
constituencies have kept them in pub
| lie life for many years.
This fact suggests another statement
of opinian-of opinion formed after
many years of observation of the ma.
tional Legislature. The people who are
best served by their congressman and
senators are the people who select good
men, and keep them continually in pub
lie life. 1t was because their people
kept them continuously in congress
that Blaine, Carlisle and Reed became
speakers of the house; and it is for the
same reason that Col. Henderson, of
Iowa, is now advanced to that high po-
sition. The men who remain in con-
gress become experienced and infiuen-
tial, and they easily accomplish very
much more than any new members can
achieve. The people who are continual
ly sending new men 20 congress usually
have little accomplished for their own
interests, because their new represen-
tatives are unknown here, and hence
absolutely without influence on nation
al affairs. The brilliant orators who
thrill their home people with their elo,
quence do not have hearing in the ma,
tional capital until they have made ac,
quaintances and friends in. the con
gress. Their abilities can only b,
demonstrated after several years o.
continual experience in public life.
Smith D. FRY,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-08
Horsenesh In nrlsk Demand.

Many people in Denmark prefer
horsehesh to beef In Germany ano
Austria business is brisk in horse mea1
preparations, and is becoming more sd
every year. England is still reluctant
about accepting the new aliment and
classes that kind of food alongside
snails and frogs. The first horse butchj
ers in Paris We're only established in
1866; that special trade is now legally
carried on, and is considerably increasl
ing, as demonstrated by snunicipal sta
tistics-so much so that to-day ovey
5000 tons of horsefesh are consume,
annually in Paris, sole by 60 license,
horse butchers, who receive supple
from two special "hippic" slaughte
houses, both outside the city proper.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-08
whecIman saves n Child.

Whenever bicycle figures in a spe-
cially good deed it should be recorded.
The other day little tot of a girl wan
dered from her home near Glen Cove,
Long Island, and played on the railroad
tracks. When she was discovered, the
west bound train was bearing down
upon her, and the engineer, to his hor-
ror, realized that he would not be able
to stop the engine in time. But BIZ
cycle rider heard the whistle and saw
the girl, and he rode down the track
at terrific pace. When he reached the
little girl he threw himself from his
wheel, seized her, and with her in 1fis
arms rolled down the embankment out
of danger just as the train thundered
by
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-08
BicycIe Touring In Europe.

The highly important touring agree
ments consummated by the present
executive committee of the l.. A. w.
with European cycling associations has
prospective visitors to the Paris expo
sition next year. Many have doubted
whether ii would be advisable to take
their wheels with them, but the ad-
vantages of the agreements are so
manifest as to dispel all doubts. Thou
sands of those who will visit Europe
next year are wheelmen and wheel
women, and the alliances between the
L. A. w. and the European organiza-
tions will afford them exceptional OPP
portunities for seeing the sights of the
old world
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-08
WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
1t Is Not as Supreme in Legislation
as 1t Should Be.
Amendment to the Constitution Nec-
essnry to Change Conditions Not
ia Harmony with Modern
Progress.
Especial washington letter.

There are numerous anomalies in the
government of this republic, and it is
singular if not deplorable fact that the
will of the people is not supreme, as it
should be.
For example, on the first Tuesday of
November, 1898, the people voted for
congressman, and 356 representatives
were elected. At the same time legis-
latures were elected who subsequently
chose 30 senators for the congress. All
of these legislators were chosen for the
purpose of carrying out the will of the
people on national issues.
Under the constitution all of those
representatives and senators became
members of the Fifty-sixth congress at
noon on March A, 1899, just four months
after election day. But there was no
session of the congress on March 4, and
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-08

be called in session by the president,
but the postal service was defective as
we'll as slow, and hence great deal of
time was required to bring together the
senators and representatives. More
over, for the same reasons the affairs
of the world were slow, and interna-
tional affairs were dilatory. 1t required
three months of time to cross the ocean;
and it took more than month to COM
municate with the statesmen in the
Mississippi valley-that river marking
the western boundary of the republic.
But when the nation expanded by the
Louisiana purchase and by the cessions
from Spain and from Mexico, increased
numbers required increased coFre-
spondence with public men, and still
there was no appreciable increase in
means of transportation. OF course,
the coming of steam made our water
ways available and steamboats, were
bringing our sovereign states closer to-
gether; and when railroads began to
gridiron the continent it became easier
to call the congress together more
speedily. But beyond the Rocky noun
tains were states and territories coming
into the republic, and only by boat by
way of Panama could presidential
proclamations be sent, and only by the
same roundabout means could the
statesmen from that distant part of the
republic travel to the national capital.
But the trans-continental railroad
lines settled that problem. Then came
| the Atlantic cables, and the whole
world moved forward rapidly. Interna-
tional affairs, which formerly required
months or years for their settlement,
began to be transacted by cable. For
more than 80 years means of commune
cation and transportation have in
creased. Yet the constitution, which
was formed for primeval conditions,
has not been amended to suit the times
Therefore the will of the people cannot
be carried out without the unreasonable
and ineXcusable delays outlined.
1t is because of these increased facil-
tiles of communication that the popular
will is subject to change very many
months before the statesmen elected
can take their places. 1t is because OF
the telegraph that facts of national and
international Importance are transmit
ted Immediately, very often changing
the popular desire on important mat
ters. Because of these conditions the
news of the disaster to the battleship
Maine was heralded throughout the
world, and for the same reason the peo-
pie who had been praying that war
might be averted fastened to urge their
representatives to take immediate ac-
ton against Spain.
Now, supposing that the congress
had not been in session when the Maine
disaster occurred. The popular will
would ha1-a been trottled, for the con,
gress could not have been called into eX,
traordinary session without the will
and consent of the president. The pub,
lie clamor might have moved him, and
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-08

people is thwarted and the popular will
is not supreme as it should be, and as
the founders of this government of the
people intended that it should be.
This anomalous condition can only
be changed by an amendment TO the
constitution providing that the SEN
ators and representatives shall begin
the fulfillment of the duties of their po-
sitions on the first Monday in the De-
cember following their elections. Such
an amendment to the constitution has
been contemplated and urged by nu-
merous experienced statesmen during
the past ten years; and the subject will
again be agitated in the congress dur
ing the coming session.
There was good reason for the orig
inal constitutional provision. In those
days steam was not available for the
transportation of people, either by land
or by water, Electricity was unknown,
and hence there were no telegraphs
and telephones. The congress might
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-08
MICHAEL GIVES UP.
Famous Little CycIist Abnndons His
Attempt to Get Into Champion
ship Form Again.

Jimmy Michael will not again enter
competition on the cycle track. Michael
is up a stump and thoroughly discour-
aged. He has tired of cycling been
done up by the horses, the following of
which lost him his fortune, and the fu-
ture is all n blank to the midget. This
is in brief the information obtained
from u rider who trained with Michael
for time at Berkeley Oval, New York.
Michael, it seems, was following pace
one day ct about at 1.45 gait, and had
gone about five miles, when he lost the
pace. "Bobbie" Walthour, the southern
champion, had been trailing Michael,
and when the midget dropped the pace
Walthour ran round, and after long
sprint caught it, hanging then for an
other fast mile. In the dressing room
Michael said, with a shrug of his shoul-
ders:
This is terribly monotonous, and I'm
going TO chuck it for good. It's too hot
work, don't you know, and it's not
worth the candle. l am not fit now
to get into condition for the cycle
track"
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did not say then that he intended to go
back for another try at the horses be-
fore retiring finally from public gaze,
but Walthour says that he so under
stood it. One of the men who have been
pacing Michael in training wrote to
one OF the riders, now in the south, that
Michael had demanded of the American
association seven races at large guar
antee, and providing that he should Sc
lect his own competitors-a demand so
unreasonable that the promoters could
not see it that way.
The failure of Michael to return will
be sore disappointment to the lovers
of cycling as a sport, and yet will not
be, providing it is a fact that Michael
could not get back into shape. That
he could not will surprise but few, for
he has been away from the wheel for
a long time, and, like Jim Corbett, has
lost his appetite for the work which
made him so famous. The other riders
are now so numerous and so fast that il
would be necessary for Michael to worl;
harder even than he was accustomed
to do of DID, when he did the work of
two men while training.