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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17
SEWERS AND DISEASE.

AS the funds at the disposal of the
Board of Health are $4,000 less than
the amount required to complete the
sewer system, it Is of FIRST Importance
to this community to make up the
amount. There are two ways to do it.
One is to call an extra session of the
Legislature and ask it to appropriate;
the other is to secure loan from the
citizens on the pledge that the Legis-
lature will be urged to repay the fund
with interest.
The need of doing something is ur
gent for the city, in many respects, is
getting back precisely where it was be-
fore the outbreaks of cholera and bu-
bonic plague. We have a population of
1900. Every day sees not less than
twenty tons of filth deposited in the
soil exclusive of the garbage of kitch-
ems, some of which Is buried. This
means an accumulation since May LIST,
less the amount removed by the ex-
cavators, of 21S0 tons. How much the
excavators have handled we cannot
tell, but those vehicles are rarely seen
| in many parts of the city. 1t must be
remembered also that prodigious
amount of filth was left untouched
chinery to cleanse cesspools. A short
time ago a cesspool was opened and
excavated for the first time in five
years. There are many such.
1t goes without the saying that if
things proceed as they are another
epidemic will have to be fought and
paid for. The truth roughly spoken is
that Honolulu, which ought to be a
sanatorium, is one of the most I'M
healthful places in the United States.
We have high death rate and long
record of epidemics-three of small pox,
one of which cost over 5000 lives; one of
cholera, one of bubonic plague; and we
have besides an ever present scourge OF
tuberculosis and of malaria1 and ty-
phoid fevers. Four of these maladies,
cholera, bubonic plague, malarial and
/ typhoid feters are diseases of filth or
| insanitation, which makes 1T our own
fault if we let them go on. They can
not be avoided while we continue to be
cesspooled city, one supplied with
the water of unfiltered tropical reser-
voirs, without a garbage crematory and
surrounded and permeated with tarO
and rice swamps.
But the sewers are the main thing.
| People may filter and boil their own
drinking water; the city garbage will
soon be cremated; the advance in the
price of city and CLOSE in" real estate
and the need of the conservation of the
artesian flow will sooner or later drain
| the swamps. Sewers, however, can
have no satisfactory substitutes. We
must get them in completed form and
comprehensive area as soon as possible
or accept the risk which the present
increase of typhoid fever conveys.
Will not the Executive Council take
the matter up with the Board of Health
and devise some way to give sewers tC
the whole of Honolulu according to the
original plan? An epidemic might cos
the country another million for the
pound of cure. 1t is the part of com
mon sense to buy the ounce of proven
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17
Another Great German Canal.

United States Consul Hill, at AM
sterdam, reports that the new Elbe and
Trave canal, which has been building
five years, and has been completed at
a cost of 24,500,000 marks ($5,S ,O00)
was formally opened by the German
Emperor on June Is. The length of the
new canal-which is the second to join
the North sea and the Baltic, following
the Kaiser Wilhelm ship canal,
or Kiel Canal, which was finish
ed five years ago at cost of
100000 marks ($37, 12S, 00O)-is about
forty one miles. The available breadth
of the new canal is seventy-two feet
breath of the lock gates, forty-six feet;
length of the locks. eighty-seven yards;
depth of the locks, eight feet two inch
es. 1t is crossed by twenty-nine bridges.
erected at a cost of $1,000, 900.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17
MAY BE A FORLORN HOPE.

The world will wait with anxiety up
on the fortunes of the little army which
is wayfaring towards Picking along the
banks of the Peiho river. No army of
invasion ever took greater chances, for
the odds against 1t are legion, it has
no supreme commander, it is made up
of mutually distrustful elements and
it's goal is fortified capital which an
uncomputed but assuredly great num-
Der of well-armed Cinnamon are ready
to defend with their lives.
The wall of Picking, fifty feet high.
from twenty to thirty feet thick and
with entrance ways that generally re-
quire the visitor to pass first through
walled and fortified circular court
yard-a sort of vestibule to the real
entrance-before reaching the city
proper. is a formidable defence even
against modern artillery of the highest
power. To be sure the outer shell of
the wall is made of brick, but within
are loose stones packed down with the
weight of ages. Such wall cannot be
reduced by field guns; the highest ex-
plosives would merely change it's
shape. Nor do we think the ramparts
of the Chinese capital could be scaled
for fifty feet of sheer wall is some
thing not easily handled by a scaling
ladder especially when the top of the
obstruction is covered with rilemen
and bomb throwers
Assuming that Peking will be stoutly
defended what are the allies to do?
Carrying the place by assault being out
OF the question, there remain the de-
vices of siege and bombardment AS
to siege 1t would take half a million
men to. surround Peking as the Ger
mans encircled Paris; and as to a bonn
bardment, things of that sort make
more noise than they do harm. For
days the British legation at Picking
was under shell fire but 1t emerged
without substantial injury. The Am
erican North Atlantic fleet fired a hun
dred heavy projectiles at Matanzas
and killed a mule. San Juan regarded
SIMPSONS bombardment as a joke.
Little the Government at PekingA cares
for such threat; for the stone houses
of the town would avert a conflagra-
ton and the loss of coolie life would be
immaterial. At the same time the
Government would know that China's
unnumbered millions were rallying to
cut the foreigners off,
The most we can hope for is that
the old-time fear of the foreigner, dis
tracted councils and insufficient prep
aration among the Chinese, will en-
able the little band of allies to win by
dash. If the hope is not fulfilled then
nothing is more likely than such an
other disaster as that which the Sou
daneSe, in the early Eighties, inflicted
upon Hicks Pasha's army.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17
LIBEL.

The Gomez libel suit against the Ha-
waiian Gazette Company savors of an
cient history, it having been begun in
1898. At the first trial, which was con-
corning an alleged opium deal, details
of which were published In the Adver-
tiser. the Circuit Judge ruled that the
company could not give evidence of the
truth of the charge, and with its hands
thus tied the plaintiff was given a YER
dict of $500. On appeal to the Supreme
Court this ruling was reversed and a
new trial ordered. At the trial yester-
day the company was allowed to give
evidence tending to show the truth of
the charge and to show that all of it's
information came direct from the po-
lice authorities. proving that there was
no malice in publication.
That the offense of the paper was a
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17
Too Old to Run the Fashions.

THE Prince of Wales" said a swell
club man the other ay, has done two
things lately to distinguish himself. He
has snubbed Aston and has tried to
bring out an ugly single frock
coat. One bringeth woe, the other joy
to me- as the poet said. The woe is
brought me by the coat, which will not
become fashionable and Wales should
know it by this time. He can't any
longer run the fashions for he is an
old man. Youth rules In these things
The coat is an ugly one anyway. 1t has
a clerical look. Mutton chop whiskers
and a collar buttoned in the back
should go with it. Wales only intro
6uced it because he thought it would
make his stomach look less like g
mountain. You need to be young anC
shapely in order to introduce new fash
IONS
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17
OF CURRENT INTEREST.
The Sacrifice of a Lamb.

A lamb was sacrificed the other day
at a colored camp meeting near Gin
cinnati. AT the proper time the Rev
Mr.. Brown. the leader, representing
Aaron, the high priest, appeared in
priestly robes. consisting Of a
black gown, over which was draped
several yards of red cheesecloth. He
preached a sermon in which he said:
I'VE will sacrifice this lamb, according
as was done by Moses and according tc
the Bible. We will eat this lamb. The
Bible says there must be nothing left
the second day, and we will eat the
lamb tonight, in yonder dining room
There amt much to a lamb, but the
meat is very sweet. Those who want
to eat of the sacrifice can join us. II
will cost you only Is cents. Blessed be
the Lord Then butcher dispatched
the lamb, and two black pigeons were
dipped in the blood.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17

purely technical one is evidenced by
the fact that Judge Silliman yesterday
found for the plaintiff and awarded
one dollar damages. This is virtually
a decision in favor of the defendant.
1t is the duty of the press to give the
news as correctly as possible, and this
the Advertiser did in 1893 as it does in
1900. In the hurry necessarily inciden-
tai to the making up Of daily paper
minor inaccuracies occasionally creep
in, but in the main the Advertiser s
news reports are accurate and to be de-
pended upon.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17

The San Francisco Chronicle cartoons
the massacre" romance in way that
reflects upon the news bureau Of
Shanghai. BY common consent all the
Oriental fakes, to be really startling,
must have the Shanghai earmarks.
None others are genuine. There used
to be writer named O'Shea at Shang-
hal whose access to the cable made
truth more of a stranger than fiction
in the daily kilograms, but it would ap-
pear, from the massacre yarn, that he
has found a superior liar at last. That
story quite outshaded O'Shea.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17
Estimate Of China's Strength.

Major A. E. J. Marshall, British
officer who is well fitted to speak of the
numbers of the Chinese forces, gives
the fighting troops at 205, 900, and the
reserves under arms at 6S9,000 OF the
fighting troops, he estimates that 125, 00O
are what is known as Fighting Braves,
$4,000 as the Manchurian field force,
900 Manchurian irregulars and 10000
disciplined troops. The Fighting
Braves are voluntarily enlisted men,
and were the first section of the army
to be drilled in modern foreign style.
Their discipline of late years, however,
has not been up to the standard. The
banner men, who are in charge of Pc
king, are the dirtiest, most ill-disciplin-
ed and beggarly lot of bipeds in the
whole world
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17

The belief that the trans Siberian
railway was badly built by dishonest
contractors is borne out by the diff
Guilty the Russian government is hav-
ing in the transportation of it's troops.
There are frequent breakdowns in the
line and so few Russian soldiers have
managed to reach Northern China that
there are hardly enough to cover the
retreat OF the railroad people. Prob
ably the condition OF the line will soon
be made worse by Chinese depreda-
tions.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17
A Tennessee Mandarin.

One of the leading mandarins in the
disturbed city of Picking is a young
man born and raised in this country,
in the State of Tennessee, a fact that
ought to work for the safety of the
Americans in the Chinese capital He
is Frank Carl, who went to Europe to
live with his mother in 1878, and con-
tlnued on to China in service of a rela-
tive, Sir Robert Hart, then and now
inspector general of customs of China
Mr.. Carl is now third in rank to Sir
Robert.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17

a dollar verdict against the publish
ers of the Advertiser is far more than
the average amount secured by a sue
cessful plaintiff in civil suits for libel
all over the United States. Few men,
however pressed by importunate law
yers, will consent a second time to sue
n newspaper. 1t Is a most Improbable
venture. Statistics were published
awhile ago which showed that the
average returns to plaintiffs. in the
form of cash damages, are one-half of
one per cent of the aggregate sum
claimed. The reason for this peculiar
immunity OF newspapers from heavy
judgments is two-fold; first because
juries are Jealous to an extraordinary
degree of the liberty of the press; sec
ondly because the sutton generally
makes a damage claim so large that it
would be handsome recompense for
blackening the character of his ances-
try and his posterity as well as of HIM
self and his next door neighbors. A
man whose business reputation has to
be strained to get him a dollar a day
net, usually sues for s25,Vco, sum that
II would take him IS years, there or
thereabout, to lay by. Few turies care
to enrich a man simply because his
dollar a day character has been touch
ed by the fleeting breath of newspaper
criticism.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17

Rows in communities are largely
questions of weather. When the wind
blows from the wrong quarter and the
sun flames with a new dumpage Of
Flammarion's coal. and the smooth
skin of humanity is tettered DER with
prickly heat, then look out for trouble.
Then II Is that men wear their nerves
inside out and are ready to jump at
the next fellows throat. Beware then
of the jurist who sweats by day-es-
pecially if he also sings forced lullabies
by night; beware of the lawyer whose
tropical thirst the ice pitcher cannot
quench; beware of the writer of the
press whose perspiration becomes his
inspirations; beware of the policeman
who is forced to pass the side door un-
soothed; beware likewise of the dog
and all animate nature. Wise men in
such weather will stay at home, sit
on the refrigerator and hope for the
best.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17

The differences noted between the
thermometric figures at Punahou and
those taken down town are explained
by Prof. Lyons, who says that the Pu-
nahou tests are had ten feet from the
ground while the downtown figures
may represent the heat between high
buildings, etc. Ten feet from the
ground is an elevation which few out
of-door people pass their time in; and
in any event their anxiety about the
temperature refers, to the air they
commonly breathe and feel, not the air
that circulates far above their heads
What the ordinary wayfarer regards as
climate is the degree of heat or cold
that affects him, not which affects the
nesting birds or the chambermaid up
stairs. Being in that frame OF mind he
is apt to be disgruntled when he finds
himself assured that the heat he knew
to stand at 90 degrees was really a de-
lectable GOODNESS of 79. We do not
doubt that the scientist who would give
the public some daily front-porch and
store-door statistics of temperature
and then strike an average for daily
mean, would fill a meteorological want.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17

When Prince Henry left Kiel for the
Far East the Kaiser saluted him as a
possible Emperor of China and the
Prince, following some further allusion
to the mailed fist. promised to bestow
on the reluctant Orientals the gospel
OF His Majesty's anointed person.
whatever that may have been. 1t was
all very fine and theatrical but the re-
suits are disappointing in the present
emergency. Prince Henry long since
went back home. taking most of his
ships with him, and the Kaiser ex-
presses regret that he cannot Join in
the demonstration against Picking with
force of proper size. For crusade
which began with so much oratory
parade and martial music, the end
seems rather lame and impotent.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17

Ii Hung Chang is not man to COM
nit suicide while any hope remains.
So far, he has balanced between tie
foreigners, the Boxers and the En-
press-Dowager with the skill of an ssc-
robat. His position is safer than th 1t
OF any great dignitary of China as he
has avoided the active suspicion and
hostility OF nearly every one.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17

1t speaks strongly for the good work
OF the missionaries in China that the
Boxers have found so many native
converts to kill. If these converts had
been mere time-servers they would,
when danger threatened, have turned
on their religious teachers, becoming
Boxers themselves. But from all ac-
counts they were true to their promises
and went to martyrdom as believers
who scorned to recant the faith.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17
In Honor of His Lost Leg.

An odd celebration in New York the
other day was that of the thirty-sixth
anniversary of the loss of the leg of
former Senator Matthew c. Butler of
South Carolina, who came out of the
battle of Brandy Station in 1864 with
only one leg. The celebration was a
dinner at Delmonico's given by Mr..
Butler to some of his friends.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17

Globe trotters will find in The Travel
Ter. handsome London weekly. a copy
of which has been received at this Of
flee. just the kind Of text and illustra-
ton which will please them best. The
Traveller is for people with the curse
OF the wandering foot and those who.
because they cannot journey afield, like
to read about wayfaring.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17

1t is a good sign that somebody wants
10 start a boot and shoe factory here.
We need manufacturing industries.
After boots and shoes we might fab
ricate cigars and work up sisal fiber on
a large scale. II somebody will have
the enterprise to set out rubber forests.
Hawaii may become famous as
manufacturer of rubber goods. All
that is needed is little hustling serum
among investors. N ,..-..
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17
Made q Finger of a Toe.

A substituted forefinger was shown
by koenigsberg doctor at surgical
congress In Berlin recently. He had
cut off the patients second toe and
sewed 1T to the stump of the missing
hnger, and the operation was success
ful. The doctor did not explain how or
where he was going to get new toe
Tor the patient, so it looks like a case
OF robbing Peter to Pay Paul.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17
LIES Value Varies With Age.

Judge Addition Brown of the United
States District Court in New York City,
has decided that the amount of dam
ages collectable from a common car
rler' whose negligence has resulted in
loss or lie varies with the age Of the
victim. Thus the widow of a man of
% got $4,000, while the widows of two
other men, each aged 81, received 81. 500
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17
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Hoods Pills enre liver ills; the non-irritating and
only eathartia to take with Hoods Sarsapariiia
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-07-12
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.

he approached the close Of his address,
he raised both hands high over his
head and spoke slowly and with an en-
ergv that caused his voice to penetrate
into every corner OF the hail. "And,
that man is-William Jennings BIy-
an" he concluded, bringing his lands
lower with each word until the last la1
been uttered when he brought them
up with a sweep, but quicker than his
motion was that answering cheer that
swept across the convention. It was a
simultaneous roar from all parts OF the
hall. Up went the delegates on 'helr
chairs, over their heads went the tags
and above them all scared and rang
the cheers for Bryan. The band loyal
ly performed its share, but the noise OF
it's creation was but drop in the tor
rent The men from the State o. Ne
raska flung up large banner hearing
likenesses of Mr.. Bryan On one size
and on the other side Nebraska and
a smaller portrait Of Mr.. Bryan en-
closed in star OF blue.
DAVE HILL UTTERS A WAR
WHOOP.
Whatever may have been the differ
ences of delegates over the platform.
they seemed to have forgotten them,
and all were as one in favor Of the
man. New York We'd with Nebraska
and Kansas in venting its enthusi-
asm. Richard Croker was on chair,
both arms aloft, flag in his right
hand, which he waved vigorously. Hill
was not behind him in the show of 10y
atty to the nominee and waving his
arms, he let forth series OF cheers
that equalled those uttered by any man
on the floor. Over in Illinois, Ohio and
Indiana. where 16 to is not popular.
there was no hesitation now. Round
the hall started the Nebraska men
with their huge banner, and catching
I'D their State emblems, the other dele
cations took up the march. waving
flags, and hats and cheering at the tops
of their voices without cessation, save
for the breath necessary to a fresh
outburst.
The demand for Hill that broke
forth continuously since the first ses-
sion was at last gratified. In respose to
repeated calls, the Senator took the
platform, and in a telling speech
pledged the undivided support OF the
party in New York, and the 36 electo-
rial Yates, of that State to the nomi-
nee. This speech was greeted with the
widest applause.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-07-12

put and amid a roar Of cheers the plat.
form was adopted without word OF
dissent. The announcement OF Chair-
man Richardson OF the adoption or the
platform was followed by a stunning
shout which made the building ring
from one end to the other. Then iol-
lowed a stirring and dramatic scene
The plank in the platform denouncing
England's policy toward the Beers had
called out immense applause, but when
il was announced by Chairman Ricn-
ardson that the convention would De
addressed by Hon. Webster Davis, for
mer Assistant Secretary OF the Inter
ior. the crowd manifested its enthusi-
asm by cheering for two minutes. Then
the former Republican leader ascended
the platform and stood facing me
thousands Of spectators.
THE NOMINATION OF Mr.. BRYAN.
Sergeant-at-arms Martin rose ID his
feet and waved desperately for silence.
when few delegates of confusion had
been eliminated he said: The HeXt
business before the convention is the
nomination OF a candidate for the