The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-07

With ancient pipes between their lips, !
And shippers aft enjoyed their rest
Then was the harbor at it's best.
Twas at the time of set of sun,
After the long days work was done.
Big ships lay idle in the stream
Kissed by the dying days last CLEAN,
While numerous craft along the shore, |
rhe splendor of the sunset bore.
Calm as a Sabbath evening hour,
flushed for the day each noisy power;
smooth as mirror the mystic SEA,
Grand in it's dread eternity.
It seemed that the soul of the busy day
in a rainbow mantle lay.
Countless cloud-forms fiecked the sky
Like passing thoughts they fioated by;
The lonely watchmen on the shore
Feasted their eyes in reverent awe;
While the songs of the sailors, happy
at ease,
Were borne DER the harbor on every
breeze.
Crimson and purple and sapphire and
gold
And the tenderest green's that the skies
ever hold
In colors commingled, smile and
frown,
Such was the scene when the sun went
down.
IT'S a saying that glory preceding the
night
Is sure sign OF fortune when the
next day shows light.
SOLACE GETS AWAY.
The United States Navy Transport
Solace sailed for San Francisco yester-
day morning with H. NJ. Sewall as
passenger from Honolulu. Berger's
band, always on hand on such occa-
sions, serenaded the officers and men of
the Solace for nearly two hours before
her departure. The Solace returns IN
short time and will carry Captain ].
T. Merry the commander of the Unit
ed States naval station here, to Guam.
THE ALICE COOKE.
Before long the schooner Alice Cooke,
now at the foot of Allen street, will
commence discharging her cargo OF
lumber. 1t is understood that Captain
Penhallow will not take on sugar here
but will sail for the Sound in ballast to
get another load of lumber.
THE DUNREGGAN CASE.
Commissioner Robinson, who has been
busily engaged for the last week on
the case of the towboat Fearless
against the British bark Dunreggan,
Captain Dixon, says that he is just fin
ishing up the testimony of the claimant
and that it will take another week to
complete the work. He will then sub
nit the evidence, without any opinion,
to the court and the case will be ar
gued on it's merits. The claim is for
S20, 900
WHY IS WATER BLUE?
This question: may seem to some
readers absurd, yet its answer is still,
to some extent, in DOUBT. The received
opinion has been that water is not of
q. blue color in itself, but appears so on
account of fine suspended dust that
catches and reflects the blue rays Just
as the particles of smoke do when it
is very thin and fine On the other
hand, the experiments of Professor
Spring, the Belgian physicist, seem to
indicate that the water itself has really
an azure tint. Says the American
Chemical Journal, in a discussion OF
Springs work:
Earlier experiments of Spring led
him to the conclusion that the water
itself was blue, and that the fine parti-
cles which it holds in suspension, while
contributing very much to its illumina
ton, exert no appreciate influence on
the intensity of the blue color Soret
had previously, in 1869, expressed this
same opinion. AS neither the work of
Soret nor that of Spring appears to
have convinced every one, Spring has
again taken up the subject. With the
object of determining experimentally
the optical properties of the particles in
clear waters, parallel rays from pow
erful electric light were passed through
O distilled water, (2) the drinking
water of Liege, and 60 rain water that
had been allowed to stand. In all cases
the presence of particles became appar-
ent, the clearest being the drinking
WaterH There was no evidence of a blue
water"
Further experiment, however. fur
nished the desired evidence Light OF
different colors was allowed to pass
through the water, with the following
results:
These. experiments show that the
particles,f to which clear water distill-
ed or natural, owes it's illumination
have the power to reflect the red, the
yellow, and the green waves, and that
they can not, therefore, be the cause
of the blue color of water. Refectine
with equal facility waves of all lengths
they return the sunlight to us without
chromatic change. The author. con-
Guides that water is blue itself. and
that the particles which it holds in
suspension are the principal cause OF
ITS illumination. According to their ma
ture, they determine also the modifica
ton of the color of the water, and pro
duce greenish tones when they do not
destroy all the natural color"
GENERAL SHIPPING.
| capt. r. A. Williams of the William
". irwin, for twenty-five years master
OF Honolulu sugar vessels, has retired
10 ms ranch for a short time, and viii
devote his time to raising silk worms
10 make balloons to run an aerial mack
ct line Frisco and Klondike-Cape
| Nome News
| SAN FRANCISCO, August 29.-The
/, transport Rosecrans is expected TO sal
thursday with two light batteries
The transport Westminster. which ar
rived from Manila Sunday night. will
| go on the Union Iron Works dry dock
today. and upon coming off will be
loaded with commissary supplies ano
dispatched again for Manila. The
steamer Thyra, Captain Edyardsen
finished discharging her Oriental cargo
Yesterday and sailed at noon for Port
land, where she will load cop,,,,i c ca ~