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The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

The American corn kitchen at the
Paris exposition feed 1000 delighted
Europeans (chiefiy such) each day.
This can hardly fail TO stimulate the
corn trade.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

Stouchton-sDid you have a good time
at the banquet last nightg Manhattan
"Splendid. l drank myself. into insensibil-
ity before the speaking began. n."-Boston
Transcript
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton has an equal for coughs and colds
John F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

''Of course you were in Parisw "Oh,
yes, indeed; in fact, We spent so much time
there that I'm sure some people regarded
US as regular parasites. indianapolis
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

3 This question arises every day. Let us an.
swer it to-day. Try Jell-O, delicious and
healthful Prepared in two minutes. Nc
boiling! no baking! add boiling water and
set to cool. Flavors:-Lemon, Orange, Rasp-
berry, Strawberry. At your grocers. l0c
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

'Is he, then, A real countY "Oh, yer
He figured up the o.d mans millions to
dot. indianapolis News.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

Tramp (caught stealing ride)-"Mr.
Brakeman, if you force me to leave this
train I'll boycott this road and never ride
over it agair."-Indianapol News.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

The stomach has to work hard, grinding
the food we crowd into it. Make its WORK
easy by chewing Beeman's Pepsin Gum.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

1t is said that an ordinary brick weighs
about four pounds. Nevertheless, the man
who gets hit with one imagines it to weigh
about four tons.-Norristown Herald.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

In this mercenary age no future is con
sidered bright unless there's money il
it.-Detroit Journal.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

You can't judge horse by the harness
Chicago Daily News
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

An Atchison young man is called Lily
by his acquaintances, because he tolls not
--Atchison Globe.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

Qualified Praise.-Brown-"Do you be-
lieye in sea bathing% Robinson-"Oh, yes,
/ think SO. Many people have been known
to survive it."-Town Topics.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

People who move in the best circles often
fail to get ahead much.-Puck.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

When a man climbs up in his family tree
and looks down upon the passing throng he
has outlived his usefulness.-Chicago Daily
News.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

pleases all the family. Four Havors:-Lem.
on, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

There is always a way; it takes viii te
discover it.--Atchison Globe.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

Teacher-"Willie, where is the capital ol
the United States?" WILHELM the trusts. .
Buffalo News.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

Alexander-'I suppose it viii make the
original smart Aleck of me-" observed Alex
andef, "but here goes" With this, hs
stepped out and sighed for more words ia
conquer.-Detroit Journal.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

An men are born ignorant--and soms
never outgrow it.-Chicago Daily News.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

To Cure q Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets An
druggists refund money ifitfails to cure 25c.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

Peckham St. Globe Village Fall Rive
health
Everett
Hallo dth
DR. eenes Nevura and tried
the Genes Nervua tina
robust
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22
for the
Blood and
Nerves
Dr.. Greene,s
MeE'vuH,a

of and his wonderful
Children whom it given
lives child who
dreaded
eulepsy child would troubled by them
the first symptoms
Charles I. Mc7ay, highly esteemed p0AOo
officer who resides af ~ Agyrfie St, Now Bedford
AAa6Sss Say6s
health Suffered
naus "ncn severely
affect her
blood and remedy and mneds benefit & shs
without
ldren"
prescription
3S Street. New York
ali Of
complaints consulted tree CHARGE
personally or by letter.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

The Best Prescription for Chiils
and Fever is q bottle Of GRovE's TAsrELEss
CHILL Tonic. tits simply iron and quininein
atasteless form. No cure-no pay. Price, Soc
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

"Jimminyl" exclaimed the first boy,
"teacher jumped on you pretty. quick.
Yanked you up and walloped You like light
ming, didn't he?" "No," replied the other
boy, ruefully,. mot like lightnin'. He hit
too often in the same place."-Philadeiphis
Press =
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

The Diluted Milk-At a public school
the other day teacher, having asked most
of his pupils the difference between an
island and peninsula without receiving .
satisfactory answer, came to the last boy.
II can explain it, sir, said the bright
youth. First, get two@.assss; fill one with
fly and place it in the glass of water. That
fly is an island, because it is entirely sur
rounded by water. But now place the fly
in the glass of mix and it viii be peninsula.
because it is nearly surrounded by water"
The boy went up to the top OF the class.-
Spare Moments.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-12-22

On the San Juan branch Of the Concho
an important Electrical power development
is to be made. Below the city of Peral, and
between that point and Chihuahua, dam
$50 feet wide and $50 feet high is to be con-
structed, impouEding a lake Is miles long
with an extreme width of 81 miles. 1t is es
timated that from 5000 to 10000 horse
power will be generated.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12
OF CURRENT INTEREST.
Caught After Thirty-five Years.

Macmillan Shinburn, the bank bur-
glar, who escaped from the New
Hampshire State prison no less than
thirty-five years ago, has just now
been recaptured. 1t may reasonably
be doubted if there is another case on
record where success has finally re-
warded so long a search for an escaped
convict or for any other kind of a fu-
gitive from justice. In this case the
|credit of the recapture is probably due
to the wonderful persistency of the
American Bankers Association, which
has fund for the detection and pun
ishment of bank burglars, and which
never lets up on these offenders, nc
matter how prolonged or hopeless the
pursuit or how heavy the expense in
volved in conducting it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12
REPAIRS OF STREETS.

The Advertiser believes in doing as
much as is reasonable to improve the
streets, and is in favor of bettering the
Pauoa road. But it contends that re-
most travelled should always precede
any but emergency work on roads
which have little traffic and should
have the preference, every time, to the
opening of new thoroughfares.
AS matters stand the street of heav-
lest, or at least most crowded traffic,
| is King between the Nuuanu bridge
and the end of the car track at Pala-
ma. 1t is also the worst highway on
which to drive or walk. There are
few smooth surfaces anywhere, and in
rainy weather the street is a channel
of mud, covered in places by sheets of
water. After the late kona storm the
worst quagmires were filled with
broken rock over which the steam roll
Ter pursued its casual way. The net
result has been merely to show how
good a road might be built if the
Board of Public Works would stop
patching and begin to mend. Is it too
much to ask for a smooth highway in
that important section? Would it not
be better to create it than to waste
money on a boulevard around Dia-
mond Head; project which. at it's
best, is a pleasure scheme, and at it's
worst piece of real estate jobbery?
The two great residence thorough
fares OF the city proper, King street
to the Waikiki turn and Beretania to
Punahou, could be made ideal at very
little expense. Months ago the Ad-
vertiser urged that the little channels
or runlets crossing the driveways.
which were left from making house
connections with the sewer be flied
up; and that the places where pebbles
Or cobblestones crop out of the road
bed be smoothed over. But despite the
simplicity of the work nothing has
been done, and vehicles and bicycles
go humping over the rough places as
before.
However, let it be our consolation
that Diamond Head is to have its
boulevard and that a Tantalus park
project is in the wind.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12
Cheap Chinese Living.

Henry B. Miller, the United States
Consul ot Chung-King, China, says in
his last report: THE standard of liv-
ing of the ordinary Chinese is so far
below ours in the cost and character
of food consumed that it seems inn
possible to US, and a statement of plain
facts appears like the most extrava-
CANT exaggeration. AS an example, the
servants in some of the best places in
Shanghai club together and pay a cook
to provide and prepare their food for
month, or about s1.25 a month in gold
or fraction over cents day in our
money"
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12

from abroad, has risen to great pro-
portions in middle Europe. In 1894.
when Mulhall gave his last estimates
to the public, the beet sugar produc-
tiCn of France had reached $4,000
metric tons; of Germany. 1y350, 600; OF
Austria Hungary, $4,000. Much of
this sugar went to swell the imports
of the United States which, in 1896,
amounted to 604.6S6.9S5 pounds of beet
product valued at $14,04S,914, exclu-
sive, OF course, of the cane sugar i'm
portations valued at s69,S17,2S6 With
an export bounty to inspire them and
the enormous American market show
ing a deficit in local production Gn-
Guiding HawaiD Of nearly 100000
pounds of sugar annually, the Euro
pean farmers were steadily increasing
their output. We are now about to
witness a turn of the tide. With the
export bounty off, European produc-
ton will be steadily curtailed and
there will be a better market, or one
less in danger of competition, for
American growers. 1t is figured at
New York that Cuba and Porto Rico
will be greatly benefited, though Cuba
has no present right or certain pros
pect of entering its sugar free of duty
The New York classification ought to
include Hawaii which has as much
reason as Porto Rico to rejoice.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12
THE LABOR QUESTION.

The misgivings of the public over
the Porto Rico labor experiment are
Increased by the news that the coming
field hands are of wretched and de-
generate sort, from whom little work
and much vice may be expected. From
the first the Advertiser has opposed
going to Porto Rico for plantation
labor on these very grounds. Mongrel
in blood, combining the wickedneSs
and laziness of the low-class Span
iards and negroes whence they sprang,
filthy and ungovernable, the Porto
Ricans will do no work that they can
avoid and are liable to resent pressure
with their knives. 1t ought to have
needed but one look at the prostrate
agriculture of Porto Rico itself and
at the percentage of disease and crime
among the inhabitants to warn the
Hawaiian planters against having
aught to do with such a people.
Fortunately, the first consignment
from Porto Rico is not large, and 1t
may be the last. We surmise that I'M
portations will stop in their case as
quickly as they did with the Gal1cians.
But what then? If Porto Ricans and
their congeners are ruled out, the
planters must decide between white
men and black The latter may not
be procurable, for the Southern plant
ers want to keep their own field hands,
thus eventually forcing the planters to
make the serious effort, which has SO
long been withheld except in the case
of the German and Galician importa-
tions, to get labor from the northern
white races.
That labor would be the salvation OF
Hawaii, agriculturally, commercially
and socially. One cannot, in view OF
the German experiment, and the sue
cess of the Wahiawa colony, respect the
argument that white men are sdisquali-
fed for field work in Hawaii. Expert
ment shows that the difference be-
tween the quality of endurance needed
for such labor here and in the inter-
ior valleys of California and in the
midsummer hayfields of New York and
Pennsylvania is in favor of Hawaii.
White men can stand the toll of trade
wind Islands; the question which
bothers the planters is their terms?
Planters are willing to pay good wages
but might not responsible white men
demand a chance to go into can =
growing and cutting on the co-opera-
tive plan?
Suppose they did? Is it not good bus
mess policyt to accept smaller dividends
for the sake of larger crops, quicker
Iservice, immunity from strikes, and a
sober, decent and industrious white citi-
|zenship? Would not that sort of thing
pay better than continuous uncertainty
and trouble with the lowest types of
human kind? At any rate we are sure
the Islands as a whole would be bet
ter oil for the innovation, and that
they will be very much worse off #
they are compelled to take the lazza-
roni of all the Latin races and add
them to the perplexities of the race
problem as it stands.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12

The news of the Shan-si massacre
is horrifying if true. But, considering
the ease with which correspondents at
Shanghai and elsewhere invent stories
of bloodshed, it would be well to await
further light on the Shan-si affair
There are many reasons to doubt the
tale as it stands, for any Chinaman
fit to govern a province must know
that a slaughter of missionaries at this
time would so enrage the allies at
Peking that nothing less than the dis
memberment of the empire and the
sacrifice of his own life could answer
to their sense of justice.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12
A Church Dancing School.

Dancing as an auxiliary in church
work prospers in Brooklyn at least 1t
Will be remembered that the expert
ment of starting a dancing class in
connection with the First Congrega-
tional Church evoked comment and
criticism ali over the country Even
from Southern California and Florida
letters denouncing such a move were
received. Yet the dancing class be-
gins it's third season Monday evening,
and there are more applicants than
ever before
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12
Victim of q False Report.

DR.. Conan Doyle is a victim of a po-
litical roorback. His chances of election
20 Parliament from the central division
of Edinburg looked all right until the
morning of election day, when he woke
up to find the whole district plastered
with posters stating in big black let
ters that DR.. Doyle was not only a
Roman Catholic, but Jesuit in dis
guise; also that he was scheming to
undermine the Church of Scotland.
There was TO time to deny these state
ments 1t mattered not that DR.. Doyle
was no Catholic. The work had been
effectively done and he was beaten.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12

The hint given Bryan by Chairman
Jones and Vice Chairman Stone that
he had better go out of the presiden-
tial field and give some other Demo-
crat a show, will probably be lost on
the Nebraska statesman. Bryan has
set his heart on the presidency, and
may be expected to illustrate the max
i'm: Once candidate, always can
didate" Just now he would seem to
have no chance at all, but If times
should tighten up again and money
grow scarce, there might be way
to resurrect his boom.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12
fOotgear

The Kaiser grows wiser with age
In 1895 his telegram recognizing the
independence of the Transvaal almost
brought on a war with England, and
he was obliged to rush for cover and
cry quits. Now, when Mr.. Kruger
asks the mild favor of an audience, the
Kaiser ruthlessly snubs him. Evident
1y Wilhelms green and salad days are
over, and he has given practical poll
tics the right of way over knight er-
rantry.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12

humors from Chicago about an en-
hanced price OF beef. which might af-
feet the local market, are thus disposed
OF by Bradstreets:
fersistent reports that the price of
Dee1 mas been advanced have como fron,
chicago of late, but little basis for these
statements can be discovered In reply
10 an inquiry regarding this matter.
Bradstreets Chicago correspondent
writes that few small butchers have
raised their prices, but the large pack
ers deny any advance The wholesale
price of beef at Chicago has, IL is stat
ed, not varied u to Y cent The range
there Is 512 to S12 cents Cattle how
ever, have advanced 25 cents per hun
dred pounds. This is due to the West
ern range cattle supply decreasing
earlier than usual. 1t started earlier
than last year, and has shut off several
weeks before IL did a year ago. At this
season, when the beef trade changes
from grass or Western cattle to corn
fed, there Is always a variation in
prices, as the quality of the latter is
better. Last year cattle sold at S6S5 for
the best. Now they bring So, with the
range on beef grades $500 to $5.65. Hogs
are high as compared with recent years,
but have dropped 81 per hundred pounds
within a month. Heavy packing hogs
sold November IA at $3.50. They are
Sl.5O higher than, the average at this
time for the past six years. Last year
they were s4.15 and three years ago
1870.
There is, however, some reason to
expect the price Of beef to go up in
the United States as the holdings of
cattle are the smallest for eighteen
years past, and prosperity has increas-
ed the meat ration of people in moder-
ate circumstances. Besides beef, pork
Is also exceptionally scarce, a similar
scant supply not having been reported
on the Mainland since 1881.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12
SUGAR PROSPECTS.

The agreement reached by France
Germany and Austria to abandon the
export duty on sugar confers an OBJ
vious benefit upon cane-pro6ucins
countries. Under the bounty law the
raising of sugar beets, an industry
which the first Napoleon began-or
revived-in France when the British
blockade cut off supplies of cane sugar
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12
He Knew What to Do.

A Sunday school teacher not long
ago was telling the story of the boy
Jesus becoming separated from his pa
rents, and the more wildly to impress
on the youthful minds the grief of the
alarmed parents, she asked the uues-
uon: What would you have done,
John, If your little brother had become
separated from your side in strange
city!' Go right to City Hail." was
the quick rejoinder. The teacher waiv-
ed discussion and the lesson proceeded.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12


Evidently the Presidentt refusal to
be guided in Hawaiian matters by the
views of the Sewall coterie has given
the Bulletin a desire to bolt the Re-
publican party and get into the pri-
vacy OF the Gear Humphreys faction.
we quote from last evenings lamenta-
tions:
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Herald says Mckinley is oppos-
ed 10 the plan of reducing the Congress
sional representation of the Southern
States. A desire to strengthen the Re-
publican party in the South is the rea-
son given for this opposition. 1t is in
deed refreshing to note that there are
portions of the nation where the Pres
ldent seeks to upbuild and strengthen
the Republicans. The marked assist
ance ne rendered the party in Hawaii
at the inauguration of the Territory
would wiring tears of sympathy from a
craven image. 1t makes all the differ
ence in the world whether there is an
electoral vote in the balance
And this from the settee of small
politicians who were going to drive
out the missionaries and run the Re-
publican party" and be "close to Nc
klnley's private ear Having failed
In all three undertakings they natu-
rally rage and imagine a vain thing.
Auwe, auwel
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12
Another Preacher Editor.

The Rev. Judson Ellsworth, pastor of
plymouth Congregational Church, of
Milwaukee, edited the Milwaukee Jour
nal a week ago Saturday, and his ex-
perience led him to the following con-
cluslon; The paper as it is publish
eu To-Day is nearer what Christ would
make it than the paper edited bv Mr.
Sheldon. L have learned many things
today that 1 shall always remember.
1t has been pleasant experience"
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12
Petroleum Drives Away Mosquitoes.

Petroleum has been used with much
success as a means of exterminatinp
mosquitoes, and thus preventing ma
iarla. All that is necessary is to spray
tie drains, marshes and puddles with
the oil early in the season and repeat
the operation every two weeks for a
short time thereafter. 1t is said to be
tne best method Yet tried for disinfect-
ing locality of malarial germs.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12
Always Approac cha BILE.

me late John Sherman thought it
ons uuty OF every public man to re-
ceive, whenever possible all who
wlsned to see him. Only a short while
peIore his death he said: "If people
want TO see me they shall do so as
,uns as L nave the strength to receive
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12

The moral Influence of big battle
ship was never shown to better ad-
vantage than in the quick results
which followed the arrival of the
Kentucky at Smyrna. The American
claim for indemnity against the Porte
had been pending for years. and diplo-
macy had vainly piled its arts to bring
about settlement Finally the Ken
lucky cast anchor in the harbOr OF
Smyrna, and in less than a week the
Turk had agreed to pay the American
bill and give this country a ship-build-
ing contract besides. Great is Uncle
Sam, the collector, and the broadside
is his prophet.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER Il

Jerry Simpson, the sockless calamity
howler of the West, is conspicuous
victim of Mckinley times. Since 1896
he has acquired fine dairy farm and
now has bought a controlling interest
in the Union Live Stock Company oi
Kansas. At this rate Jerry will soon
become one of the plutocrats he was
wont to denounce with an eloquence
which was as devoid of frills as his
footgear.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12
Mueller Never Dictated

Inc late Max Mueller never en-
ployed a stenographer or tvnewritar
and wrote all his life a clear and Ieei.
pie hand. Another interesting fact in
ms LIE was that he ardently desired
In MS youth to follow the study of
music, but refrained because deafness
was hereditary in his family, and fear
eo II might come upon him in his prime
ana ln1ure his usefulness in that line
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12
$40, 100000 For Good Roads

The Vermont State debt amounts tc
ABOUT S5si,oOo. But it appears to be
COZ eonsadered SO slight matter to add on
slo'voo'ooo and expend the whole pro
AT least such a bill is now before the
Legislature.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12

Congress and Parliament opened on
the same day No doubt Mr.. Bryan
will see in this another sign of that
destructive Anglo-Saxon alliance.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-12
FOR LEASE.

THE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS A
lease for term of years of that very
desirable parcel Of land situate on the
corner of Hotel and Richards streets.
recently occupied by the Fashion Sta
pies company. Possession may be CIV
en- on the first day of January next
For further particulars, apply to
j. o. CARTER,
Attorney-in-Fact for Mrs. Mary L.
Brown. 5719