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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-05

In Los Angeles On Easter Sunday the
First Methodist Episcopal Church sub
scribed $1,000, making the $4,000 need
ed and the church dedicated.
At the recent session Of the Balti-
more Conference. South, after an ad-
dress delivered by Bishop Gambler, $685.
600 was raised in behalf OF, the TWEEN
tieth century fund.
The Jesuit order is said to be in
creasing in membership everywhere. 1t
has doubled its membership in the last
thirty years and now numbers $4,000
fathers and brothers.
A temporary shelter has been opened
In Wilhelmina, Sweden, by the Saliva
ton Army for those Laplanders who
were impoverished by the failure of
their crops last year.
There are ninety Salvation Army
corps in Germany. Twenty Of them
are in Berlin. There are seventy-six
army food and shelter depots and res
taurants in the United States.
The Church of the Pilgrims, Brook
Ign, N. Y, has unanimously elected
Rev. H. P. Dewey, d. D., of Concord,
n. H., as successor of DR.. Richard s.
Storrs to the pastorate of that church.
The California Advocate reports 81
051 as the offering for foreign missions
on Easter Sunday by six Methodist
churches in San Francisco, Oakland,
San Jose, Palo Alto, Pacific Grove,
Fruitvale and Corning.
Mrs. Frederick Billings of Wood
stock, VT, has given $4,000 for the
Moody memorial fund. Large contri-
buttons have already been made in
London toward the 100000 endow-
ment for the Moody Schools.
At the twilight communion service,
-on Easter Sunday, at the First Congre-
gational Church of Los Angeles, thirty
nine new members were received, max
ing total of 633 additions during the
six years pastorate of DR.. Day.
The Salvation Army began opera
tons in Canada seventeen years ago
Its forces there now comprise 29O
corps, It's brigades and outposts, As
shelters, IL rescue homes, 9S9 officers
and JIG local officers and bandsmen
Rev. w. S. Bryant, who has been la
boring in the Southern California Con-
ference during the past year or two
will go to Cape Nome early this snrine
to do missionary work. He will be ac-
companied by his wife and other work
ers.
The Methodist Church of Ada, O.. has
sent out Miss Luella Anderson as a
missionary to Malaysia, where the
British Government purposed to do.
nate to Bishop Thoburn q school build.
ing worth $4,000 if he would furnish Il
with a teacher.
The Salvation Army in its various
institutions throughout the world cares
for $4,000 poor daily. Since last Sep
TENDER, in Gujaral, India, it has assist.
ed nearly 5000 families, representing
about 10000 individuals, each week al
Its various grain depots.
The Episcopalians will send a mis-.
sionary to Nome, Alaska. The money
for the work has been secured. The
secretary for missions says the man
should be priest between 80 and 40
with robust health abundant hope and
keen sympathy with men.
Inc Jews OF the Caucasus are now
becoming adherents of the Zionist
movement. In the town of Vladi Can.
cas- there are 160 Jewish families. and
two Zionist societies have been formed
one Tor males and one for females
Each numbers $50 members.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-05

That excellent magazine, Outing,
has gone into the hands OF Caspar
Whitney, who is personally known and
liked In Hawaii. Mr.. Whitney, who
was for years sporting editor OF Har-
per's Weekly, made marked improve
ments In the first number OF the mag
azine which came from his hands, and
1t is now the first among American
publications of Its class.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-05

1t is said that every Office within the
appointive power Of the Territorial
Governor has been promised five times
over in the effort to swell the tale OF
machine-made Republicans in this
civ
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-05

The job-chasers may not be numer-
GUS enough for a Republican party but
they would be nice little croquet par
ty IL they have learned to play the
game
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-05

After a careful reading of the Bull
letin's articles on the Republican meet
ing we begin to see why the hundred
lob chasers want another organ.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-05
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

The Pope has nominated Cardinal
Pietro Respighi, Archbishop of Ferrara,
as his vicar, in succession OF the late
Cardinal Jacobini.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-05
Electric RAILWAY.

Contracts have been let for material, and The,
of construction, equipping and installation placed
hands of competent electrical engineer to be fuly.
pleted by June lst. Having an independent 4
plant we are prepared to furnish electric pOss
lighting, heating and other purposes, to our honsa
ers at most reasonable rates.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-05
PACIFIC HEIGHTS
KA1ULANI DRIVE.


and in itself artistic piece of engineering
access to all points, also scenic and marine Mn
exquisite grandeur at every turn.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-05

In Los Angeles On Easter Sunday thu
First Methodist Episcopal Church sub
scribed $1,000, making the $4,000 need
ed and the church dedicated.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-05

At the recent session. Of the Balti
more Conference, South, after an ad
dress delivered by Bishop Gambler, $35,
600 was raised in behalf Of the TWEEN
tieth century fund.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-05

The jesuit order Is said to be in
creasing in membership everywhere. l
has doubled its membership in the las
thirty years and now numbers 1900
fathers and brothers.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-05

ply each lot. Permits for making water cOnnai
will be granted on application.
An inspection of the attractive homes now I'D
or the names of purchasers of lots, will conyiucu
that PACIFIC HEIGHTS is the choicest and moss
of all the residence sites of Honolulu.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-05

special invitation is extended to everv,.
visit Honolulu's most delightful residence site
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-05

A temporary shelter has been opened
in Wilhelmina, Sweden, by the Saliva.
tion Army for those Laplanders who
were impoverished by the failure OF
their crops last year.
The Virginia enterprise., 1900-11-02

the daytime. Naturally during business
hours taking them through the streets
is attended with far greater difficulties
than at night. When corners are turned
the long poles, as they are transported
IN an angling direction from one street
to another, practically blockade traffic.
OFTEN when going straight across q
street small blockade is caused, for
the poles are SO long and are carted so
slowly that when they cut thorough
fare all of the cross current of cars,
wagons and carriages is held at a
standstill for as much as a minute,
sometimes more, and a minute is a
much longer period of time in such a
case than it seems in print.
All of the poles are fifty or more feet
in length, and the largest ones are in
the neighborho0d Of foot in thickness
at the largest end and a few inches
smaller at the tip end. The wagons
are about forty feet in length. They
are very simply contructed and are of
great strength. The wheels are over
five feet in diameter, and the two sets
are placed the full length of the wagon.
or about forty feet away from each
other. The load moves slowly enough
at the best, but when it approaches
corner whore turn is to be made the
The Virginia enterprise., 1900-11-02
FEATS IN STREET TRAFFIC.

Hauling Pine Logs More than Fifty
Feet Long Through Chicago.
The greatest feat to be seen in street
traffic in Chicago is the handling and
transportation Of the loads Of Norway
pine logs designed for use as piles in
building foundations. The trunks Of
these pine trees are of such great
length that the average passer-by on
the street often wonders how in the
world the load of piles ever turns cor
ner.
It is not an uncommon sight to see
knot Of people collected at street
corner watching the approach and skill
full turning Of the long wagon with it's
load Of three or four piles. Turning
the corner and entering another street
at right angles is such a difficult feat
that as rule the pines are taken
through the streets at night when there
is no traffic to Interfere Recently,
however, loads Of them have been
driven through the heart Of the city in
The Virginia enterprise., 1900-11-02
AVOID TOADSTOOLS.
THEY ARE OFTEN MISTAKEN
FOR MUSHROOMS.
Some Interesting Information by DR..
Farlow, Professor of Cryptoeamic
Botany in Harvard University-How
to Tell Edible from Poisonous Fungi.

Besides the chance that the toadstool
may be mistaken for the edible mush-
room, danger is said to lurk in that
which under ordinary circumstances
might be eaten with impunity. 1t is
absolutely essential that mushrooms in
tended for the table should be gathered
IN their prime and prepared for eating
IS quickly as possible. In their chem
ical construction they are much the
same as meats. In fact, many authori-
ties claim that they are good substl-
tute for meats, and in some countries
the peasants and poorer classes have
no other meat for weeks and months.
Just as the meats taint and become un-
tit for human consumption, so the
mushrooms decompose and become dan
gerous.
Probably the deadliest of ALL as we'll
as one Of the most violent and fatal Of
vegetable poisons, is the amanita ver-
nus, and Of all the poisonous varieties
1t is the one that may most easily be
mistaken for the wholesome variety.
With this variety all tests for distin-
gushing, such as pleasant odor, boiling
with silver spoon, furnishing indicat-
ing poison, change of color when bro
ken and peeling Of the cap are said to
be at fault. The amanita has an in
v1t1ng odor, it's taste is very pleasant
and 1t peels easily. The latter tests are
not considered conclusive, however, for
the reason that many OF the varieties
that are edible do not peel easily. The
one unerring mark by which amanita
may be distinguished is little socket
IN which the stem sets and which is de-
nominated the poison cup. This cup
may be under ground and must be
searched for If the novice would be GER
tain that he has not plucked his own
death. Any mushroom that has even a
suggestion Of such socket should be
left severely alone.
IN an extensive paper entitled 'Some
Edible and Poisonous Fungi" prepared
by DR.. w. G. FarloW, professor Of cryp-
togamic botany in Harvard University
for the United States Department of
Agriculture, are given some rules for
distinguishing the common mushroom
from the deadly agarics. Dr.. Farlow
says:
1.-The common mushroom has a pileus
which is not covered with Wart-]ike
scale; gills which are brownish purple
"hen mature; a nearly cylindrical
stalk, which is not hollow. with ring
near the middle. and without a bulbous
base sheathed by a membrane or by
scales.
''The fly agaric has a pileus marked
with prominent warts: gills always
The Virginia enterprise., 1900-11-02

Kensington, England. He was leader
Of an expedition largely subsidized by
the Royal Geographical Society, and
after years march Of over 1900 miles
from Zambesi to Uganda he has come
back with hundreds of specimens and
several important additions to the
knowledge of Central Africa.
Mr.. Moore and the twenty Ujiji boys
who accompanied him lived on goats
during the ascent and descent. driving
the goats and killing them when food
was wanted. The Ujiji boys were SO
struck with the phenomenon of ice that
they tried to carry bits down to Ujiji.
The tropical sun nearly boiled the ice
on the way.
Between Tanganylka and Lake AL
bert Edward is Il lake called Kivu. The
best atlas published gives it as about
one-tenth the size OF Albert Edward.
Mr.. Moore, who was accompanied by
Malcolm FERGUSON, an English geolog-
list and geOgrapher. found that Kivu is
larger than Albert Edward. The north
end Of Tanganyika was found to be
fifty miles westward of it's ascribed DO
SitiOn.
The primary object of the expedition
was to dredge and sound the lakes.
with reference to the marine forms
which Mr.. Moore found there four
The Virginia enterprise., 1900-11-02
ELECTION DAY.
How 1t Came to Be Tuesday After First
Monday in November.

How II Came to Be Tuesday After First
Monday in November.
The designation of the day for hold
ing the presidential election is left to
Congress. The first act passed by it
relating to that subject was in 1892. 1t
provided that presidential electors
should be appointed ''within thirtyfour
days before the first Wednesday in De-
cember." This left each State free to
select day to suit itself within those
limits. Pennsylvania chose electors on
the last Friday in October. Other States
elected theirs on different days be-
tween the beginning and middle Of No.
vember.
When Harrison was elected in 1910
the Democrats asserted that his sue
cess was due partly to fraudulent vot-
ing, which was made possible by the
lack of definite election day. 1t was
alleged that Kentucky and Ohio Wings
had voted in both States, the election
being held on different days. SO in 1915
the Democrats passed the law now on
The Virginia enterprise., 1900-11-02
LONG DRIVE ON AUTO.
TO CHICAGO FROM ST. LOUIS IN
THIRTY-SIX HOURS.
Roads We're Rough and Routes We're
StranGe-Mud, Sand, and Many Turns
Retarded Speed of Horseless Carriage
One Tire Punctured.

John L. French, of St. Louis, is the
first man to make trip from st. Louis
to Chicago on an automobile. He made
the distance of 45O miles in thirty-Six
hours, notwithstanding the fact that
he encountered bad roads and was fire.
quently retarded by following wrong
directions. He travelled without a chart
and did not try to choose the most direct
route. He made the journey to prove
that the horselcss carriage could be
used satisfactorily on the dirt roads of
the country, and that it could be de-
pended on to climb hills and to wheel
through deep mud.
The automobile in which the long
drive was made is Of phaeton pattern
and weighs 1000 pounds. 1t consumed
eighteen gallons of gasoline at cost of
The Virginia enterprise., 1900-11-02

years ago. The question was whether
the jellytish and crustaceans originally
got into ranganyika by way of the
Nile or the Congo. Having determined
that these marine species are to be
found in none Of the lakes north Of
Tanganyika, Mr.. Moore believes tlnt
Tanganyika was once joined to }fle
sea by way of great basin in tle
Congo state.
When Tanganyika was left high, if
not dry, in the center of Africa, the
jellyfsh and crustaceans of the sea re-
NAMED behind, and their descendants
are flourishing to-day. They have been
there many thousands of years, for
fossils they resemble are to be found
below the chalk level.
The Virginia enterprise., 1900-11-02

the statute books making the first Tues
day after the first Monday election day.
At that time but five of the twenty
six States had their State elections in
November In Michigan and Missis-
sippf voting was carried on through two
days-the first Monday and the follow
ing Tuesday, New York had three cleo
t1on days-the first Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday-but had finally con-
fined voting to the middle day, or the
first Tuesday after the first Monday.
Massachusetts chose State officers on
the second Monday in November. and
Delaware on the second Tuesday. SO
Congress selected the first Tuesday
after the first Monday to consult the
convenience of three States out of five,
one of the three being the important
State Of New York.-Chicago Tribune.
The Virginia enterprise., 1900-11-02
HOW JELLY FISH EMlGRATF

One Investigator Says They Climb
Mountains and Cross Deserts.
The problem Of how the apple cot
into the dumping sinks into insig
niticance beside that of the jellyfsh.
the crustaceans and Lake Tanganyika:
but J. E. S. Moore, who has just come
back from Central Africa, believes he
has discovered how the fish from the
sea got into the lake in the middle of
the continent
Mr. Moore is one of the young men
at the Royal College of Science, South
The Virginia enterprise., 1900-11-02
Alpine Routes Abandoned by Tourists

How few tourists now take the trou-
BILE to see the great passes of the Alps,
where the scenery is always grander and
more varied than it is in the valleys or
on the SUBMITS! Grandest among these
passes is the St. Gothard, but the road
over it is well-nigh deserted, for the
swarms of travellers make no halt be-
tween Lucerne and Como and are con-
tent with glances from the car windows
before and after entering the tunnel.
The Simplon is another impressive pass,
where the mechanics are now tunnelng
from each end. The road travel over
it is already light during the summer,
and when the railway is completed the
diligences will be taken off and the route
be abandoned, as the highway over the
Great st. Bernard has been emptied
from Martigny to Aosta.-New York
Tribune COrreSn0ndenca
The Virginia enterprise., 1900-11-02
Lost Arts of EgyDt.

Analyses of weapons and tools, dating
from very ancient times in Egypt, have
convinced NJ. Berthelot, the French
chemist, that the old Egyptians used
pure copper in the manufacture of such
objects. They displayed much ingenu-
1ty in manipulating that metal. \
chisel was made by folding thin strips
Of copper over one another and then
forging them into a solid blade, while
hollow needles were formed from coD-
per leaf by method very similar to
that which is employed at the present
day in making helical tubing for BIZ
cycles.
The Virginia enterprise., 1900-11-02

white; a stalk with a large ring around
the upper part, and hollow or cottony
inside, but solid at the base, where it is
bulbous and scaly.
The deadly agaric has pileus with.
out distinct warts; gills which are al
ways white, and hollow stalk with a
large ring and prominent bulb at the
base, whose upper margin is membra-
nous or baglike. Other minor points of
difference are the different places in
which these species grow, and also the
colors, which, although they vary in
each case, are brilliant yellow or red in
the fly agaric, white, varying to pale
olive, in the deadly agaric, and white,
usually tinged with a little brown, in
the mushroom.
"A word should be said as to the size
and proportion Of the pileus and stalk
in these three species. In the mush-
room the pileus averages from three to
four inches in breadth and the stalk is
generally shorter than the breadth of
the pileus and comparatively stout. The
pileus remains convex for a long time,
and does not become quite flat-topped
until quite old. The substance is firm
and solid. In the fly agaric the pileus,
at first oval and convex, soon becomes
fiat and attains a breadth of six to
eight inches, and sometimes more. The
stalk has length equal to or slightly
exceeding the breadth of the pileus and
is comparatively slenderer than in the
common mushroom, but nevertheless
quite stout. The substance is less firm
than in the common mushroom.
THE pileus Of the deadly agaric is
thinner than that of the common mush.
room, and, from being rather bell.
shaped when young, ,&becomes gradually
fat-topped, with the center a little
raised. In breadth it is intermediary
between the two preceding species. The
stalk usually is longer than the breadth
of the pileus, and the habit is slenderel
than in the two preceding species. All
three species are pleasant to the taste
which shows that one cannot infer thai
species is not poisonous because the
taste is agreeable. The fly agaric has
scarcely any odor. The other two spe
cies have certain odors Of their own
but they cannot be described"
While there are over 100 varieties OF
mushrooms and toadstools which may
be eaten, there is no general rule@ fol
their Identification, and each must be
learned as species. The gatherer may
safeguard himself to some extent by
The Virginia enterprise., 1900-11-02
Extraordinary Township.

The most extraordinary township in
England is that of Skiddaw, in Cumber-
land. 1t contains but one house, the
occupier of which is unable to exercise
the privilege of voting, because there
is no overseer to prepare a voters list,
and no church or other place of wor-
ship or assembly on which to publish
one.
The Virginia enterprise., 1900-11-02
Should Avoid Certain Shades.

A famous Partisan dressmaker de-
clares that blue and pink of any shade
whatsoever are fatal to the beauty OF
a woman with red hair He refuses
pointblank to use even the most frugal
touch Of either color, no matter how
earnestly his red-haired patrons may
desire them, and tells them with deep
regret but unyielding firmness that only
black and white in judicious combina-
ton, soft. warm browns and delicate
The Virginia enterprise., 1900-11-02
Remarkable Knifn

The most remarkable knife in tho
world is that in the curiosity room of
a firm Of cutters in Sheffield # has
1890 blades, and ten blades are added
every ten years. Another curiosity is
three pairs Of scissors, all of which
can be covered with a thimble.
The Virginia enterprise., 1900-11-02

PEELED to sue for her contract money in
1885. Soon afterward Salvini was at
tackled with the disease of which he
died not long ago in Italy. Since that
time Miss Archer had been very sue
cessful as an actress. She was born at
Easton, Pa. in 1860.
The Virginia enterprise., 1900-11-02

purples are permitted to them. Another
Paris dressmaker says that there is 4
touch Of green in every woman's COL
orlng, and that he makes it point to
discover it and to bring that especial
shade into the finishing of the gown.
He also adds touch Of white to everv
costume that issues from his atelier,
claiming that all colors are improved
by its contra sted effect.
The Virginia enterprise., 1900-11-02

steep hills. With the general use Of
the automobile will come an ideal con-
dition for farmers, inasmuch as the
popularity Of the horseless carriage
will compel more attention being paid
to the smoothness of country roads.