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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-06
OF CURRENT INTEREST.
Sir Claude Macaonaid.

A correspondent writes to the maya
zine, Nanny About People, relative to
the characteristics of the British min
lister in China. Following is an ex-
cerpt: Sir Claude Macdonald, al
though he was regarded for many years
as a nom marrying man, is a thorough
ladies man., and is never happier
than in feminine society, while ladies
invariably return the compliment, and
Sir Claude finds himself popular with
them all the world over. In West At
RIGA, when he was still a bachelor, a
native princess asked him to marry her.
In Egypt he was certain to be an ac-
ceptable partner at the best, entertain
ments, and latterly, in the far east, al
though other diplomatic representa-
tives think lightly of his diplomatic
powers, their personal liking for him
is fully shared by the ladies of their re-
spective families. A year or so age
Sir Claude went on semi-annual visit
to Tientsin, and as usual, caught on
like wild fire when he went into society
the fair Americans vying with the Eu-
ropeans in their anxiety to be agreea-
BILE to the British. minister. With the
tact born of long experience he divided
his attentions so equally that no ma
tionality was favored beyond another
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-06
rHE cHIMEsE PRoBLEM.

Can 400. 900 900 semi barbarous people,
newly awakened by national spirit
and fanatical to the last degree, be
conquered by any force which the civil
lized world can afford to bring against
them? Is not the lesson of the Boer
and Philippine wars in their favor?
Here we embrace the vital inquiry OF
the new and complex Eastern question
one that is disturbing the chancellery
of every maritime power.
1t has long been recognized that if
China should awake as Japan did, she
would be able to defy Europe and AM
erica. The Kaiser put the idea into
pictorial form that she would be able
not only to defy them but to assail
Europe with hordes vaster than those
which, under Genghis Khan, carried
war to the banks of the Dnieper. Lord
Wolseley once spoke of the ''somber
menace of China and General Gordon,
the Martyr of Khartoum, always be-
lIeved i'm the natural capacities of the
Chinese soldier. 1t was a matter of as
constituent that Japan, with 100000
men, was able to bring the old Mongol
empire to terms. but the world is be-
ginning to see the reason why. 1t was
because China still slept There was
no national resistance to the invaders,
not even on the sea. The Chinese ships
and troops which took part in the war
represented not more than four prov
inces and but parts of those. Hence
Japan's easy victory. But now there
is a very different situation, for from
the Amur to Hai-Nan we hear of. the
gathering of a million men who raise
the war-cry of China for the Chinese"
and demand the head of every foreign
er. Everywhere this sentiment goes,
from city to city and village to village.
until the white man, even in his sea-
coast fortresses and on his battleships,
/ looks askance at the gathering storm.
Surprising that the Chinese nation has
now been born and that its 100000 600
people are of one mind and one
heart, what can the civilized world do
to safeguard it's interests in the great
hostile empire? This is military prob
lem that would have puzzled Napoleon
himself, especially after his unhappy
experiences with the Spanish peasant
ry.
The only hope is that China may get
some blows at the outset that Will dis
courage her and send her off to bed
again. II not, then the outside world
may as well prepare to leave China to
herself as the only alternative to one
of the most hideous and prolonged
wars in history.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-06
Gruesome Golfng.

A letter from Singapore contains the
following, which would seem to show
that the strangest golf links in the
world are to be found in that far east
ern city: I'VE played over a Chinese
graveyard. around the funatic asylum
and hospital, and finished on the lawn
of the orphan asylum. The links are
very sporty. the tombs serving for
bunkers and other hazards, while ball
driven over the wall of the lunatic asy-
lum is lost, and you lose Stroke and dis
lance. The tombS are slowly being
hacked to pieces by the wild efforts o;
the players to get the balls out of the
crevices in the bricks"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-06
Diaz Feels His Age.

When General Diaz learned of his
reelection as president of Mexico, he
said: II must repeat what / said some
months ago, that neither my age nor
my capabilities qualify me to continue
ruling the country. 1 am 20 years old.
of which forty-three have been devoted
to the active service Of my fatherland,
AS to my capabilities, l reaffirm my
previous opinion, and can only add
that 1 will not withhold from my faith
lerland my closing years, If she requires
them of me, any more than / have be-
grudged to her the unstinted services
of my whole life
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-06
Waikiki Picnic.

The Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation picnic has been planned for this
afternoon. The young women will
journey out to Waikiki in the cars and
will gather at Makee Island where a
merry time will be had in the shade
OF the trees. Box-lunches will be TAX
en- and general good time enjoyed
All who join the festivities are request
ed to be at Makee Island as soon after
o'clock as possible
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-06
A $40 Wife Deal.

George Rosengrant of Wyoming
county, Pa, sold his wife last week to
Raymond Palmer for $40. Rosengrant
is a small farmer, and Palmer is a
woodchopper. Mrs. Rosengrant refi1s-
ed to live longer with her husband.
Palmer said he would take good care
of her, and Rosengrant said he would
make no trouble If Palmer would pay
him $40. The cash was produced and
the bargain sealed. BY the agreement
Palmer is to educate Rosengrant' S
youngest child.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-06

IL the Hawaiians establish munich
palities with their votes we are pretty
sure that they will not turn the pay
rolls over to the white Purchasers
The latter. in their pursuit of new OFF,
ces. are running after will o the
wisp that would get more and more
elusive as the time came nearer for
making appointments. Hawaiians are
not in politics to line the pockets of
the haOle.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-06

The success of free silver campaign
would stop investment, here and else
where in the United States, as quickly
as the touch of fire stops the growth
of a plant. No man would pay out
good money for securities on which
interest and principal might be law
fully payable in debased money. Six
teen to one is a threat against the
prosperity of every American, whether
capitalist or wage-earner.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-06

A row boat gets along pretty well
with a coxswain and a couple of oars
men. What's the use of giving it an
admiral. a captain, a full staff and a
superfiuous crew? People who want
little Hawaii TO have from three to five
sets of local officials when it is making
a smooth passage with one set may be
able to solve the rowboat problem.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-06
White at Gibraltar.

General Sir George Stewart White.
the hero of the siege of Ladysmith and
the soldier who was not afraid to own
up to it when he Numbered, has just
been installed in his new position as
governor of Gibraltar. When the gen.
eral arrived at the famous British fort
ress he was given a hale reception by
the soldiers. He made several address,
es, which were well received, and will
assume the duties of his post at once.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-06

The Albany Argus, organ of the rural
New York Democrats, advises Prince
David to quit princeing and get
good Democratic job at whitewash-
ing" Our esteemed fellow citizen, as
he feels all this Democratic hospital
ity, resembles the man who was invited
to a party and on going there found
himself in a shower bath.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-06

The Bulletins belief that the proper
ty-owners want higher taxes and the
rest of the people higher rents may be
sincere but it is likely to get itself
modified when that paper sees the mu-
nicipal idea in contact with somebody
besides the job-chasers.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-06

No wonder Democratic leader said
he would like to meet John Wise In
Congress Since Jerry Simpson retired
from politics the House has been hard
up for amusement.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-06

John Bush's peerless leader. VIM.
Cullen Bryant. isn't any deader than
Johns peerless party will be after an
J other walk off the silver plank.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-06
Costly stoppage.

The Barnum Bailey circus paid the
street car companies of Hamburg s., 900
to stop their cars during a circus pa
rade.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-01


NOR will prove a fact and that fac
tory of this kind will be built This
kind of glass factory is needed in
this city, and no better location for
such plant could be found in the val
ley. Citizens will gladly welcome any
industry that comes.
The Bellaire Steel Company has all
of its departments on and are too busy
| filling orders to think of closing down.
In regard to the new additions to build
nothing can be learned The work on
the new laboratory is almost complet-
ed, and will soon be ready for oc-
cupancy.
|. The Riverside bridge and structural
iron works are having their usual
steady. run, and have all the work
they can take care of.
The Benwood Furnace Company have
their full force on and about all OF
their Improvement completed.
The Laughlin shovel works expect to
be on by Wednesday, providing their
machinery arrives, which has delayed
the starting of this plant for several
| weeks.
The Laughlin tin mill is on in full
in all departments, and from all infor-
nation that can be learned the plant
will enjoy a steady run.
The Beaumont Glass Company, which
is outside of the National, seems to
have no trouble and goes ahead with
plenty of orders on hand, and makes
large shipments every day.
Spence, Baggs & Co. are busy as u.s.
ual, working every day.
The West Virginia Glass Company
has been closed down for two weeks
on account of the scarcity of barrels
and packages, but expect to be able to
resume Monday in full, as they expect
to have a supply of packages at that
time. The company have plenty OF or
ders, and are anxious to have the plant
in operation.
Mann's foundry is busy as usual, and
have plenty of orders ahead.
The Laughlin nail mill have ninety
machines on making cut steel nails.
The management states that they have
but few calls for iron nails, but that
there has been a great revival for cut
steel nails, and that from the present
outlook they will enjoy good bust
ness for some time. The ninety ma
chimes that are at work employ in all
about $50 men and boys.
The outcome of the Aetna-Standard
plant is still unknown, and while many
are predicting how it will be operated
in the future, it is safe to say that no
one knows, only those at the head of
the new trust. One plausible rumor is
that the plant will make no more tin,
and in place will make black plate.
Another rumor is that the tin depart
ment will be changed into an enamel
ing works. These are all rumors, and
it is well for the public to only con-
slider them in that light.
The Novelty mould works are busy
and are rushed to keep up with their
orders.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-01
Woman Suffrage Our Sole Issue.

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, in an
article urging that the woman suf-
frage organization should take the lead
initiating legislation for woman suf-
frage because this is their sole issue,
says:
Individual suffragists throughout
the country, who, by the thousands,
have reported that when the time
shall come to conduct a suffrage cam
paign in their States that they will be
willing to join suffrage clubs and to
work to the utmost, should see the
necessity of taking their stand with
the Suffrage Association at this time,
and to stand until it's membership shall
be so increased that the w. C. T. u,
or any other association, will not feel
called upon to take the lead in legisla-
ton because of the smallness of the
Suffrage Association in their States.
The suffragists of this country, realiz-
ing that legislation was not close at
hand, have diffused themselves into
many organizations and movements.
We find them in the Woman's Clubs,
in the Red Cross, in the Grange and
Farmers Alliance, in the council, in
the kindergarten associations, in the
relief corps, in the w. G. T. U.-eyery-
where The time has now come when
it is their duty, as we hope they may
see it, not to drop the work in which
they are engaged, but to add to its
membership in the Suffrage Associa-
ton. These women have given as ex-
PLANTATION of their movements that
they could take more suffragists within
these associations than they could in
a suffrage association itself. The time
has now come to appeal to all the con-
verts they have made to stand by their
convictions and be counted in the Suf-
frage Association. Let its members
grow so great that the whole world
will know that there is an overwhelm-
ing number of women who demand en-
ranchisement-not in the interest of
any party, reform or issue, but because
it is just claim of human liberty
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-01

ton of the knights of Labor have invited
William ]. Bryan to address them at a
dinner to be given on May 8, the fifteenth
anniversary of the organization on its
present prosperity. 1t has 100 members
and $4,000 in bank 1t is expected that
1000 persons will want to sit at this BAN
quet.
In New Zealand the labor unions went
into politics; they elected their brightest
and most radical members to office; the
result has been wholesome laws that not
only protect labor from the exactions cap
itaLsts have passed but they have been
enforced to the letter and spirit as the
heavy fines and Imprisonment of the vio-
lating employers testify.-Appeal to
Reason.
At New York the General Council Of
PAYERS and Bluestone Cutters and Flag
gers is sending circular notice to the
heads of city departments and to con-
tractors that on and after April members
of unions connected with this Council will
refuse to work more than eight hours a
day and seven on Saturday, with one hour
each day for lunch; wages to be $3.50 a
day.
Springfield, Mass, horseshoers demand
a nihe-hoyr day with minimum wages of
s. for firemen and $3.50 for fioormen. The
present wages week with 10-hour days
is SIG and s12 respectively. The journey
men will receive the cooperation of the
bosses, as it is believed the men can do
better work in the shorter hours. The
boss horseshoers are also planning to raise
the prices for work The rates are now
from s1.25 to $3.50. and the new price will
be $50 to 49, This will be the regular
rate, and special work will be- of course
more expensive.
Whereas, The mayor and Council of the
City of Macon, wishing to give its in
dorsement to organized labor, and recog-
niz.ng the different labor unions as repre-
scented by the Central Labor Union to be
composed of one of the best classes of our
citizens, and recognizing also that union
workmen and union work is a guarantee
of the very best class, as well as quality
of work; therefore, be it, Resolved. That
all printed matter used by the various de-
partments of the city shall bear the union
label and that union workmen be employ
ed in every case where possible when work
is to be given out.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-01

country, men like Governor Atkinson,
Secretary of State Dawson, and Col
lector White are to be found to invent
plans of fraud; and bold men like At
torney General Rucker may be found
to threaten bloodshed on plans for
mulated, even when addressing leg
islative committee as lawyers. And he
the States chief law officer!
1.-THE Senate of the State, for cause,
and by a two-thirds vote, could expel
a member, or by a majority vote could
decide a contest after hearing, but who
so bold as to assert that the Senate
had authority, without any cause, to
suspend a member pending contest
for his seat? And that contest in this
case was merely fraudulent pretense,
invented by the Governor and his as
sociates, in champertous and fraudu-
lent conspiracies, to institute contests
and pay all costs and expenses
against the dignity of the State
''Kidd's case, when he was sus-
pended, was before a committee OF the
Senate, and that committee had sent
for and obtained certain ballots, but
never afterward asked for or received
any other evidence. And the Senate,
after Mr.. Scott was declared elected,
unanimously declared that Kidd was
elected. And peace was again
A Blessing in Charleston.
But it is insisted that Kidd and
Dent were suspended by agreement.
That agreement was, in itself, an lille
gal and void contract, and against pub
lie policy. And the purpose of the
Senate to elect Mr.. Scott by fraud is
clearly shown by giving Norris Kidd's
seat pending the contest, and allow
ing Morris to vote for Scott on the
24I> of January, when the houses
voted separately"
The report of the majority reviews
all the facts in the case, so that the
two reports together contain a presen-
tatien of the whole matter, including
the documentary evidence, from which
any one of average intelligence will
have no trouble in forming an opinion
of his own on the merits of Mr. Nc
Graw's contest. 1t should be said that
Mr.. McGraw's counsel have won the
of the members of the
Senate committee, one of whom, a Re-
publican, has said that the dignified
and courteous way in which the case
was handled did no damage to the
cause of the protestants.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-01
WORLD OF LABOR.
has 500 silver mines.

Mexico has 500 silver mines.
England has 10000 barmaids.
Milwaukee boasts blind editor.
Uncle Sam employs 10000 people.
New Zealand sends frozen meat to Eng
land.
Kansas is to have a 1aoo-a cucumber
farm.
After May Frisco carpenters will get
| $3.50 a day.
Cleveland grocers will sell vegetables
by the pound after April 18th
Washington negroes propose fire COM
pany composed OF colored men.
Missourfs Department Store Tax Law
| has been declared unconstitutional.
Paterson, n. j., painters won, eight
hours, $3.50 a day and pay for overtime.
| Indianapolis police uniforms will be made
| in Cincinnati. Indianapolis tailors kick.
| Capital invested in farming in this coun-
| try Is estimated TO be $4,000 10000
Duluth painters now get no less than 80
cents an hour and enjoy the nine-hour
| day.
The gross receipts of American railroad
companies are now nearly s., 800 10000 a
year.
Milwaukee carpenters demand eight
hours, so cents an hour and exclusively
| union operations.
| Only men who can read and write Eng
lish can be employed in British Columbia
| coal mines.
New England granite cutters have been
| conceded eight hours. and the minimum
| wage rate will be IS cents per hour.
A demand for $3.50 day for eight hours
| work VIII be made on April by the New
| York Safety Engineers Union.
In shipyards in Russia common workmen
| receive from 81 TO 81 cents per day and
| skilled worknen from Il cents to ST.
The Chicago Evening Post has come out
| f1at-footed in favor of supplanting the girls
now employed in private houses with
Cinnamon.
The Safety Engineers Union, OF Brook
| Ign, demands daily wage of $3.50 and an
| eight-hour work day for its members. TO
| commence April l.
The Rock Drlllers' Union, of Brooklyn,
has made a demand for a minimum wage
scale of s2,75 for an eight-hour work day,
TO begin on April l.
The New York Park Department has
| agreed to employ union bricklayers on all
new buildings for the depar tment, and to
| pay them union wages.
! An order has been introduced in the Mas
! sschusetts Legislature to make women
eligible to serve as overseers OF the poor
in the city OF Lowell, Mass.
The Central Board of Education will be
asked by a committee representing the
United Labor League OF Western Pennsyl-
vania TO close the schools on Labor Day
Thirteen years ago President Vreeland
was digging gravel in Long Island pit.
| making a dollar and q half a day. He
now personally manages the greatest
street railway system in the world.
The House Shorers and Movers Union
has prepared new scale of wages to take
effect May l, which is TO be presented to
the bosses. The demands viii be that
shoreFs receive $50 and s2.75 a day, a
weekly pay day. and an eight hour work
day
The demand for the union label of the
Cigarmakers Union in Brooklyn has
grown extensively of late, and the Label
Committee is being kept busy complying
with requests for them During the past
week the committee granted over aBT. 900
labels
The New York United Brewers Associa-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-01
DAVIS.

DAVIS, ". Va, March 31.-At
Thomas this week a miner by the
name of Joseph Adkins was killed by
being caught in the electric wires in
the mines. He was buried by the order
of St Johns, and the funeral was one
of the largest ever in Thomas.
Mrs. 8. B. Elkins has announced TO
the children Of Thomas. Capeton and
Albert VIRTUALLY one town. that she
will award prizes on September for
the best work done by boys or girls
under II years Of age, for carving
drawing. sewing, mending, darning.
button hole working, bread and cake
and also any mechanical toys or work
that the children can make alone
She also offers a prize for the child
who raises the most chickens and the
best kept flower and vegetable garden.
l. D. Fowler, Of this place. is can
didate for sheriff OF Tucker county;
also w. B. Haller and w. r. Lips
comb. OF Parsons. The Republican
convention viii decide between these
three
small monthly paper has been
started at HambIeton, this county.
Mrs. G.. Hoffman, Of Grafton, has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. Cal Deal,
for few days.
". H. Cunningham, Of Pendleton
county, was in town a day.
T. T. Wallace. Of Clarksburg, was In
town the other day.
c. W. Burk, Of Belington, was in
town Friday.
]. W. Wagner, OF Keyser, was re-
cent business visitor in our city.
DR.. J. W Johnson. OF Clarksburg,
was in Davis since our last issue, re-
newing acquaintance
s. r. McCamey. OF Belington, spent
Sunday in town.
| II. o. Blaken went to Elkins Mon
day and viii, we learn, accept a posi-
ton with the Inter Mountain.
Miss Ada Heironimus is in Baltimore
this week
John C. Smith has returned from at
tending court at Petersburg. Grant
county, and reports things booming