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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-26
UNDERWRITERS sale
ON MONDAY, JULY 80, 1900
JAS. r. MORGAN, Auctr.

AT 10 O'CLOCK A. NJ.
At my salesroom, SO Queer Street, will
sell at Public Auction, for account OF
whom it may concern, the following
described goods. slightly damaged by
salt water on voyage of Importation, ex
ship wv. 3. Flint"
Diamond ID Company.
No It's and up--6 Cases Hoe Handles,
each Az feet, doz., SO doz.
No. lis and up-34 Cases Hoe Handles,
each TT, 6 doZ., goa doz.
No. lis and up-50 Bags Asbestos
Cement.
No. 175 and up Bids. 2sx30xs4 Cal
vanized Iron.
vaniZed Iron.
no. 3SS-412-6 5-lb. Boxes Horse Shoe
Nails.
No 414-31s doz. Ames Long Handled
Shovels.
No 5l2--1 Doz. 30-qt. Dish Pans.
No. 55S-574-2 Cases, each 1 doz
! Hunts Axes.
/ No 14-45-2 Cases, 1 doz each, No,
/ O, Defiance Oil Stoves.
| No. 615-1 Box, 80 doz., Butts.
/ No. 360--1 Case 3 No. l Baldwin
Feed Cutters.
No. S62-1 Case No. 2 Baldwin Feed
! Cutters.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-26

g. SEVERAL LOTS on Punahol
road. opposite tne College properly, II
tract Of land known as the Judd tract
COMPRISINE
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-26

ALSO several fine lots At rear OF
above and adjoining the prop
erty of Messrs. F. NJ. SwanZy, Fl. Il.
Waity, c. b. Wells and G. P. Wilder.
These lots are on sloping ground on q
road running parallel with the Mancs
road and command extended views OF
sea or shore.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-26
JAS. F. MORGAN, Auctr
Re al Estate
FOR SALE.

1. SIX LOTS on King ST., opposite
residence of ]. S. Walker, Esq; slze OF
lots. 60x120.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-26

8 FINE LOTS fronting on the road
each lot contains from IA to "a.
acres.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-26

Book and Job work in the highest art,
eS ecuted at short notice, at the GA
ZETTE office.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-26
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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12

base, thereby retiring the runner, who
had started for the plate. Then he ran
toward second and met the runner and
touched him out. He had made a
triple play unassisted.
THE umpire had called two strikes
on the first man up for our side when
the opposing twirler made a tremen-
dously wild pitch, the ball going about
four feet over the catcher's head. Our
batter had the presence of mind to
strike at it, and he easily made first be-
fore the catcher could recover the ball.
and the third singled, thereby filling
the bases. Then McGuggenheimer
came up to bat, and we noticed that his
club was REINFORCED with steel bands.
"The first ball pitched, PUNK hit out,
and, to the CONSERVATION Of the This
ties, it could not be found. While they
were chasing wildly around looking
for it all of our runners scored. Just as
PUNK was crossing the plate the first
baSeman discovered the ball. McGug-
genheimer had driven it out with such
force that it had penetrated the canvas
of the first base and had lodged inside
the bag. 1t was so firmly imbedded in
the sandbag that it took five minutes
to extract it.
THE second time PUNK came to bat
he drove the ball eight inches into the
ground, just in front of the plate. The
pitcher and catcher dug frantically, but
before they could exhume the ball
PUNK had scored. Every ball he hit he
banged to pieces, and seven new ones
were used in the course of the game.
The Whistling Thistles were 50 ner-
vous after that that every time McGug-
genheimer batted they threw them
selves on the ground to escape injury.
And they were so generally upset that
we easily defeated them by the score
Of 40 to I.
'At the end of the game McGuggen-
heimer had driven the ball into the
ground three times, and had knocked
four boards off the center-feld fence"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12

In his address at Cambridge Mr.. Bal
four, who is one of the many scholarly
and somewhat erudite British states
men, professed fondness for the
eighteenth century. In those days men
occupied themselves much with the fu-
ture. Now people go ahead regardless
of 1t. Instances are found in the thrift
1essness and wastefulness of industrial
wealth and the dependence upon meth
DDS which differ little from those used
On the time of Watt. Every new in
vention throws new strain on the lin
tied sources of power and sooner OF
later those sources of nature will give
out" 1t is proof of the existence OF
the conditions of which Mr.. Balfour
complains that his words will not lead
TO any economy In the use of coal nor
will they increase the slender precau-
tions that are taken for the preserva-
tion of the forests nor lead to move.
ment for less wasteful methods of ag-
ricuhure.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12
SOLID BRICKS OF YELLOW.

Gold Cubes as They Reach the Mint
Need Not Be Avoided.
A paragraph in the New York letter
of the Ledger stated that there had
been received at one of the banks a
lump of gold from British Columbia
weighing 1897 ounces, in shape of Il
cone, 13 inches high and "a inches in
circumference at the base, and valued
at $135,2T5. At the United States mint
in this city it was stated yesterday to
a Ledger reporter that it was unusual
to ship gold in such large masses. 1t
must have been cooled in a crucible,
which was broken from it, judging
from it's shape. No such masses had
ever been received at the mint.
The usual form of gold bricks Is that
of an ordinary brick, the very largest
being valued at about $4,000 and
weighing about 800 ounces. That such
bricks are not easily handled was cas-
lily demonstrated by the reporter, who
was allowed to lift from a truck a
brick from the Denver assay office,
SX4X3A inches in size. 1t was just the
size of building brick, only three
quarters of an inch thicker, but it
weighed ninety pounds and was valued
at $21 900. Though small, it could not
easily have been gotten away with.
Very little gold as it comes from the
mines is received at the mint. A few
small lots brought by the early Klon-
dixie miners is all that has been seen
from Alaska. The dust, or flakes, is
taken to the nearest assay office prob
ably at Seattle, and there sold to the
Government, which purchases all that
is offered. 1t usually contains more or
less silver or copper or both metals. 1t
may be refined at the assay office, but is
usually refined at the mint. Many
bricks shown to the reporter looked like
silver, the proportion Of one-third of
that metal giving them that appear
ance. Some small bricks, worth about
$1,000 apiece, were shown which had
been refined to 90S parts in 1000, prac-
tlcally pure gold. These were for a
prominent watch case mandatory for
use in its business. Chemically pure
gold is made only for testing purposes.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12
Amusing a Princess.

When Princess Henry Of Battenberg
was n child, she and her nurse were al
lowed to ramble about the Balmoral es-
tate, to visit the tenants. and sometimes
to stay to tea.
One farm was a favorite resort, and
one afternoon, tea over, good Mrs. D.
looked round anxiously, perplexed to
provide amusement for Princess, pre-
sumably satlated with toys and joys Of
every kind.
"What can do to amuse your Royal
Highness?" she asked. and was prompt
ly met by the reply: "Oh, Mrs. D, do
let me dance on your bed; may not
do 1t at home, and do so love It,"
Permission was gladly given, and the
child danced to her hearts content on
the snowy counterpane.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12
MONKEYS IN INDIA.
Are Unusually Ludicrous Counterfeits
of Their Human Cousins.

Are Unusually Ludicrous Counterfeits
of Their Human Cousins.
when l was travelling in Northern
India" said gentleman who had re-
Gently completed journey around the
world, Il was constantly impressed
with the almost human ways Of the
monkeys there. You see they are never
molested, which is also true Of the
birds, and they are as tame and impu-
dent as spoiled children.
II remember that one morning while
we were sitting at breakfast on the
veranda of our hotel suddenly we heard
the noisiest chattering, and down the
main street of the town came crowd
of long-tailed monkeys, running race
evidently. They shrieked and chattered
at every leap, tripped each other up,
pulled each others tails and seemed to
be having a generally hilarious time.
While we left the table to watch their
antics some Indian crows that had been
solemnly lined up on the veranda rail
watching us eat, made dash for the
food and had quite fight with the ma
tive servant before they were finally
driven away.
"But the monkeys of India are surely
the most irresponsible people In the
world" continued the traveller. 81 call
them people because they are such lu-
dIcrous counterfeits of human beings.
In many of the old temples>there are
monkey settlements. l remember one
in particular which was sacred to the
simians. There seemed to be thou
sands of the creatures, and l was told
that 5000 had recently been taken to
the woods to get rid Of them. But in
this temple | saw little simian mothers
nesting and rocking their babies in
their arms for all the world like
Christian mother. l ventured to pick
up one of the infants that was running
about, and instantly the baby gave
typical infantile squeal and the excited
mother came to me, chattering angrily.
put the infant down, and the mother,
her eyes still blazing with anger, car
ted and rocked it, frequently turning
to give me a SCornful look.
ut is not uncommon for the monkeys
in the trees to reach down and seize the
travellers hat as he passes.
perhaps the most remarkable sight
in connection with the monkeys in In
dia witnessed early one morning. We
were riding in the highway and by
vacant field. Suddenly from the neigh
boring forest a troop of monkeys en-
tered the field and began a regular May
dance, taking hold of hands and form
ing a large circle, then dancing round
and round and chattering gleefully."
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12
SOME EXTRAORDINARY BATTING
How a Baseball Game Was Won by
Fierce Operntions with the Stick

How n Baseball Game Was Won by
Fierce Operations with the Stick,
when | was playing right field for
the Eurtling Lilacs," said the man
with the sandy whiskers to the man
with the sun-burned neck, II was con-
sidered an exceptionally strong hitter.
But all records made by me, or by any
one else that ever pretended to do
things with the stick Of hickory, were
cast In the shade by the performance
of tall young man of the name Of
PUNK McGuggenheimer, who played
one day with the Lilacs. had seriously
hurt my thumb while running bases,
and PUNK was engaged to take my
place.
The day he covered right for us we
went against the Whistling Thistles.
We were very anxious to win, as we
had won forty-nine games and had lost
none, and we wanted to have fifty
games to our credit with a clean record.
"The game began. and the Whistllng
Thlstles went to bat first. They had
three men on bases, when the batter
knocked line ball toward third. Those
on bases thought that II was good for
a hit and started TO run, but our third
baseman jumped into the air and
caught the ball. lie touched third
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12
LAW AS INTERPRETED.

Constitutional mandate of equality OF
taxation as near as may be is held, in
Drew VS.. Tiff (Minn.), Al L. r. A. 525,
to be applicable to inheritance taxes
and to be violated by exemptions
which discriminate between different
classes of persons.
An assessment for a street improve
ment under resolution declaring the
improvement eXpedent is held in Nor
folk VS.. Young (Va.), Al l.. r. A. 5T4,
to be unconstitutional for lack Of due
process Of law, where the notice did
not designate any tribunal place or
time where the party could be heard.
Contract to expend $4,000 in "open-
ing and developing" mining property
which consisted of large number Of
mining claims, both quartz and placer,
and in erecting ten-stamp quartz mill,
is held, in Stanton VS.. Singleton (Cal),
AZ L. r. A. 334, to be one which equity
will not enforce by specific perform
ance.
Authority Of railroad commissioners
to order company to build and main
tain depot or station house is held, in
State ex rel. Tompkins VS.. Chicago. st.
Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad
Company Is. d., AZ L. r. A. 500, to be
conferred by a statute authorizing
them to notify the company Of improve
ments which they adjudge to be proper.
Power to decide between candidates
for justice Of the peace who have an
equal number of votes is held, In State,
Grow VS.. Kramer (Mo), Al L. r. A.
SOL, to be in violation OF the Constitu-
tion, which provides for the election Of
such officers without any provision for
deciding the tie, while II does make
such provision in respect to other Off
GERS. With this case there Is note
on the decision of tie vote at an cleo
tion.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12

Chicago is congratulating itself-and
with good reason-on the steady i'm
prOvement in the health of its inhabit-
ants. Records kept by the Board of
Health show constant decrease in the
death rate during the last twenty
years, particularly among children. Out
of every thousand deaths during the
first quarter of this twenty-year pc
riod, five hundred and twenty-five We're
those of children under years of age.
During the last quarter the number
has been only three hundred and thir-
ty-eight. The gain is attributed to the
diligence of the Board of Health in
spreading a knowledge among the poor
er people of the best way of feeding
dnfants during hot weather, and to the
establishment of day nurseries, steril-
ized milk depots, floating hospitals and
other admirable charities.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12

Men used to look about in deserts and
wildernesses for the fountain of youth.
Latterly they are more sensible and
look each man inside of himself From
teaching how to be young at 10, they
went on 10 teach how to be young
though nonogenarian, and then how
TO retain youths vigor for Il hundred
years. And now II man has written Il
lbook-and mighty plausible book It
is--on The Possibility of Not Dying"
Why not live forever? the advance
school is saying. Is not the body re
newed throughout every few years? Is
1T not merely machine? Cannot prop
-er care and intelligence always replace
wornout parts with new parts as good
as the originals, or even better in many
cases? Why not abandon the whole
superstition about the necessity of dy-
ing? There was an account in the
news recently of youth OF upward
or so who was making century runs
down In Pennsylvania. A wagon ran
over him and broke several OF his
bones. He was In the hospital few
weeks and then resumed his century
runs, feeling, as Teddy Roosevelt
would say, like bull moose And
physical Culture gives an account OF a
New Rochelle woman OF 93 who is n
great dancer as frlsky and Timber as a
girl at her first ball. and who is also n
daring horsewoman and is only kept
from jumping the rope and rolling the
hoop by the entreatles of her great
grandchildren, who do not think It dig
niGed. To resolve to live forever ls 3
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12
Below Zero All the Ycnr.

The coldest inhabited country appears
to be the province of Werchojansk, In
Oriental Siberia. The mean altitude
of the terrain is about 107 meters (about
800 feeO above the sea. A Russian sa.
want passed one entire year In this In.
hospitable region and kept a daily rec.
ord of the temperature, which he has
recently published, and from which II
appears that the daily mean Of the en-.
tire year is ga degrees below zero.
The daily mean for January, 1885, was
6S.4 degrees below zero.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12

That there are too many studies in
the public schools, in all grades and all
departments from the primary to the
high school, in nearly every State in
the Union, Is the general belief of
schoolmen who understand and cor
recty apprehend the theory of educa-
tion. There are no new disclosures,
therefore, in the report of the element
AIRY school committee of the "citizens'
educational commission" appointed by
the Civic Federation to investigate the
Chicago school system. 1t is crafty
ing to note. however, that the commit
tees report atiirms what has already
been pointed out by progressive edu-
Gators. The committee finds that the
course of study in the elementary
grade Is so extensive that it is
physically impossible for the aver.
age child to accomplish what is
required without overwork. 1t found
that the pupils who finish the
elementary schools are, as a rule, def
cient in English and can neither speak
nor write the language acceptably
The committee is also in line with the
most progressive educational sentiment
when II declares against the teaching
of foreign languages in the grades. The
time and money thus expended could
be employed to better advantage In the
study of English and civil government
The plethora Of books in the schools
results from two causes-the growth
of the "cramming system" In the public
schools, and the continuous and per.
sistent pressure of the school book pub.
fishers. One evil logically follows the
other. Having engrafted the examining
system upon the schools, the demand
for books Is constantly enlarged. and
the book publishers engage In fierce
competition to supply the demand. The
| result is that the schools are loaded
down with books and the old notion
which regarded education as draw
Ing out of the mental powers" instead
of packing the Uranium with useless
and indigestible facts, has been dis
| carded. 1t Is not an uncommon sight
nowadays to see a 10-year-old with
spectacles on It's nose, carrying to and
from school half dozen books. This
Is not education. The text book was
originally designed us an aid to cdu-
cation. Properly used II is guide in
the mental processes that are neces-
sary to develop the mental powers of
a child.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12
The Work of an Oak.

A single oak of good size lifts 1923
tons Of water during the months 1t is
In leaf says Frank French, in Scrlb-
ner's. This moisture is evaporated and
rises to form rain-clouds. All the trees
are busy doing the same thing, and the
rank ferns and mosses and deep mould
of the forest depths, acting as reser-
voirs for the rain which falls upon
them, in their turn feed the springs and
brooks. From this we can gain some
Idea Of the immense forces which the
forests exert in equalizing the evap-
Grafton and precipitation, and prevent
ing periods of inundation and drought.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12

A trade journal estimates the Amer
lean output of bicycles for the past
year at about $4,000 wheels. More
than 100000 are exported, and about
100000 were reserved for home con-
sumption. Yet the bicycle is now no
novelty. 1t looks as if the people who
have supposed and declared that
wheeling was merely temporary fad
would have to own themselves beaten,
and aim their dismal predictions at
the motorcycle and the automobile.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12

A Russian architect who has been
travelling in this country to study
American building methods was great.
ly interested in the elevator which he
saw used for raising brick in the con.
structiOn of a great apartment house.
He even photographed the device, in
order that he might have visual evi.
dence of it to show on his return home.
In his country no other method of
hosting brick is in use than the primi.
tive one of carrying them aloft on the
shoulders of men. Such incidents are
of common occurrence. Many of the
labor saving devices in use in Ameli.
ca are unknown elsewhere. Our own
countrymen travelling in Europe, and
more especially in Asia, are astonished
at the slow and toisome methods there
employed. A failure TO make use of
labor-saving contrivances is not always
due to lack of enterprise. Many OF
the inventions most useful to Us
'wOuld not pay" where labor is cheap.
Efforts to Introduce the trolley car for
passenger and freight traffic in the
West Indies encountered an obstacle
which the American promoters had not
foreseen. The ten cents for which the
company would carry a package five
miles or more-a rate that would in
sure generous support here-dld not
seem small there, for the simple rea-
son that many native could find no
easier way to earn ten cents than by
walking the five miles and carrying
the package on his head. If "a work
man is known by his chips" he is also
known by his tools. High-priced men
do their work with high-priced machn-
cry. The engineer of the mammoth
locomotive which is pulling hundreds
of people across country in fast eX-
press train is well paid; the poor Ori-
entail, dragging his single passenger in
jinrikisha, gets barely enough for his
supper. Not only does the high-priced
worker create the necessity for me-
chanical Improvements. but the me-
chanical improvements in turn aug
ment productiveness. The lesson.
then, forv nations and for individuals
is to make themselves worthy of good
tools. Human muscles We're made for
something better than the work which
few Jumps of coal under boiler will
do more easily.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12

No person in the civilized world who
reads of the touching funeral ceremo-
nies over the body of Italy's murdered
king can fail to be impressed by the
fact that anarchy is very small senti-
ment after all, and that it makes a
noise out of all proportion to Its size.
There is no hope for the anarchists in
the universal mourning for the dead
ruler, and the unanimity with which
the peoples of the world protested
against the stupid crime is a greater
blow to anarchy than any of its paltry
and mean successes can compensate
for.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12

laudable ambition. 1t is good idea 10
hitch your achievement wagon to
star. If you don't attain the full meas
ure Of your ideal, at least you will save
yourself from being a whining, shriv-
eled, unsightly wreck Of human be-
ing at 20.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12
NJ. Deibler.

NJ. Deibler, the French executioner,
has accumulated a fortune of 100000
francs by his skill in working the gull
lotine. At an execution in Paris, some
time back, he had his little son with
him, from which it is supposed that he
intends him to follow the same profess
sion.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12

The man who announces that he has
a method Of making old bones assem-
bile themselves and come to life prob
ably imagines that he has a rattling
good thing.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12

In view of various stories that come
from the Flowery Kingdom, it is not
always well to accept bare rumor for
the naked truth.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12

Some one asks what house party is.
1t is a party where the hostess has to
worry about sheets as well as table
clot