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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-30
REGARDING CHINA.

The situation at Picking as given in
the Advertisers Associated Press spe
cial bringing twelve hours later news
than that which reached Honolulu in
the Coast files, is as follows: After the
rescue OF the Legations a successful
attack was made upon the Imperial
city. the walled enclosure occupied by
the Manchu retainers OF the court and
enclosing a second fortified space
wherein j. located the palaces Of the
Emperor. the Empress Dowager and
the Princes Of the Blood. This sane
tUm sanctorum Of the Imperial Clan
was occupied by picked Chinese troops
whom the allies. when the dispatches
closed. were about TO attack. 1t Is
probable by this time that the Forbid
den City has been taken.
There are apprehensions in London
that the Chinese will gather in the rear
Of Picking and cut off the allied forces
but as more foreign troops are all the
while disembarking at Taku to form
Won waldersee's ultimate force Of 200, =
900 men it is not likely that the captors
Of Picking have reason 10 fear back
fire.
Trouble Of serious kind. however, -
apparently brewing in the Yang-tse
valley and Shanghai calls In a voice
bordering on hysteria for 5000 men.
The Southern Viceroys. as will be re-
membered. predicted dire things in case
the foreigners violated the sanctities OF
Picking; and since the capture Of that
city signs Of hostility have been observ-
IA in Shanghai and in the adjacent
provinces. one rumor has it that the
Southern leaders want TO start a revo-
luton. not against foreigners but
against the Northern Manchus. This
would be a reasonable thing to do as
the South is occupied by the pure Chi
nese whom the Manchus conquered
three centuries ago and no love is lost
between them; but it is argued in
Shanghai that IL any kind OF a revolu-
ton starts the natural hatred OF the
Chinese for the white interlopers, set
on fire by the excitement Of war, would
vent itself upon the foreign establish
ments. Besides the murder Of mission
aries Of the South BODIES no good to any
kind Of foreign devil
The fate of the Emperor and En-
press Dowager Is subject to ruuior only.
\ story Is printed that these soyer-
eigns are surrounded by japanese
cavalry; but as japan has no cavalry
10 speak Of and took but few mounted
men 10 China, the report may be set
down as an invention. The chances are
that the Emperor and the Dowager are
not being pursued at all. The army
now in Picking. until REINFORCED, can
hardly spare enough men for so desper-
ate a chase as that of the Imperial fam
ily and its immense body guard
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-30
THE NEGRO WILL STAY.

Bishop Turner's proposal that the
American negro, having no future in
this country" shall be sent at Govern
ment expense 10 Liberia is theatrical
but not impressive otherwise. In the
first place the negro does not want to
leave America and he cannot be law
fully evicted. This Is his home and he
is a citizen. He has a longer foreground
here than millions Of white residents;
here are his home ties, his industries,
his employments. and the graves Of his
kindred. He loves the country enough
TO have shed his blood for IL, and he
cares no more for Africa as a substi-
tute for America than we OF remote
European origin care for making our
permanent homes in England, or Hol-
land, in Germany or Spain All this
being true and considering the negroes
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-30

right to stay in his native land, the
working out of Bishop Turner's plan.
even if the Government were able and
willing to move the negro population en-
u1asse would be impossible.
Nor do we agree that the negro has
no future in America, speaking in the
narrow sense of the Mainland common
wealths alone. II he were to start an
African exodus the first people to OBJ
ject would be the white men of the
South, who want him to do the labor OF
the land. In America he is always
sure of work suited TO his manual
capacity, which is much more than can
be said of his prospects in Liberia. He
may also be soldier, a propertyown-
1T, a tradesman and he may traverse
freely any of the higher levels of bust
ness To which his intelligence and
strength of character shall elevate
him. True, he cannot vote and have his
vote counted in some parts OF the
South; but there are plenty of other
States in the North and West where he
could vote as freely as a white man
and see the influence of his ballot in
the returns. America Is a big country;
the negro may shift his local habita-
q
dissatisfied with his lot; and we ven
ture the opinion that, If he should take
such course. the stringency in the Ia
Dor market of the South would lead the
people there to make him any reason
able concession he might desire as an
inducement TO stay or to return.
1t must not be forgotten that nature
is slowly working out its own solution
Of the negro problem The number OF
fractional blacks is vastly and swiftly
increasing in the South. There are
mulattos. Quadroons and oetoroons in
plenty; and the generation after the
octoroon is often pure white. The pro-
scribed race is bleaching out; in cen
fury or less there may be no full blood
"a or even half-blooded or quarter
blooded negroes left. The color of the
Dark Continent. no longer REINFORCED
By fresh pigments from the original pa
lette. Will gradually disappear IN some
variation Of the pure white, but one
that will be no bar 10 the intellectual,
social or moral progress of the race.
Bishop Turner would be a better
leader Of his flock if he turned his back
on the blighting recourse of Liberian
emigration and said 10 his people: Your
home is in America; make the best Of
what chances lie before you; be good
citizens; deserve good treatment; wait
in patience for whatever fate has In
store and believe that, in the long run.
" hatever happens will be for the best
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-30
G. P. Huntington's VIII.

NEW YORK, August 22.-Charles W.
Tweed, general counsel and second
vice-president of the Southern Pacific
road. discussing the will of c. p. Hunt
ington, said:
We expect now that the will will be
made public by Wednesday afternoon.
or II not then, on Thursday morning
There were a number of matters of i'm
portance which we have been steadily
working at for several days and these
VIII not be in shape until Wednesday
or Thursday. There is nothing to say
yet about the vacancy caused by the
death of Mr.. Huntington except that
we all put our shoulders to the wheel,
as We sometimes say and kept things
going as they were before we lost Mr..
Huntington"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-30
Italian Detectives Coming.

NEW YORK, August ga dispatch
TO the Journal and Advertiser from
Rome says:
A stan of Italian detectives will be
sent TO this country. With the assent
Of the American authorities a special
body of thirty secret police agents. all
picked men, will be dispatched to oper-
ATE In the centres here, where Italians
ABOUND. They Will be under the COM
nand OF an Inspector VINO will have his
headquarters in New York. The for
eign budget appropriates $50 900 for this
secret service.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-30

The fact that Americans form the
largest number OF applicants for the
ribbon OF the Legion OF Honor. given
to foreigners who helped make the Ex-
position a success. will excite derision
in Europe. That effete continent per
sists ia the idea that the Yankee calls
himself a stern disclaimer OF titles
though. as a matter OF fact, he is likely
TO belong 20 a secret society whose
members are all Potentates. Mobiles,
chief Rulers. Sovereigns or Knights.
More titles Of nobility are worn in Am
erica than in any other country Of the
globe and it is perfectly natural, when
the red ribbon Of the Legion OF Honor
is in sight. for US all 10 break FOR it as
one man.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-30

The American soldiers won genuine
respect abroad for their dash and
courage before Picking. The troops in
action have been fighting pretty stead
liz since 1895 in cuba and the Philip
pines and have apparently learned their
business. Compliments for them come
from the Kaiser. Count Won Waldersee.
Admiral Seymour and other foreign
military experts who do not waste their
admiration on poor material
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-30

\ fresh outbreak OF plague in the
Colonies. the recurrence Of the disease
in Osaka and its appearance at Ham
burg. are reminders that no seaport *
immune from the visitatious Of the
Black Death. Since May Honolulu has
been disposed 10 forget the plague and
its lessons. nothing more being heard
of some OF the serious precautions then
determined upon. Are We to go on Nv
ing in a Fools Paradise or are We 70
profit by the experience of other places.
many Of them not nearly so much ex-
posed TO the calls Of the pestileuce as
is Honolulu?
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-30

Denials 10 the contrary nOtwithstand-
ing the statement in yesterdays Ad-
vertiser about the intention OF the Re-
publican Territorial Committee to hold
the Convention in Hilo is true. The
local Committee organization, as
purely fractional body. prefers Hilo, be-
lieving that responsible business men
here. whose influence the Committee
fears. would rather give UP the idea OF
going TO the Convention than 20 lose a
week for the privilege.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-30

A yellow journal likes to reprove in
decency for the sake Of printing IL
The theory is that the lower classes
will relish the details and the upper
classes applaud the high moral motive
of the exposure. whereupon the yellow
journal will catch the nickels Of both
IL is an old game which everybody sees
through, and in Hawaii it has the ad-
ditional value Of being a cheap and
easy way to suicide.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-03

t%eristic one, Is found IN the bin now
~reposing on the Senate calendar with
a favorable report from the Republic
an majority Of the judiciary commit
tee TO increase the pay Of all federal
judges from the chief justice Of the
Supreme Court down. The chief JUS
tice now gets S1O.5OO. Il IS proposed
TO give him S2i. 900 a year. The other
justices Of the Supreme Court are 70
have their pay doubled. Taking the
whole list, an increase Of salary
amounting to hair a million dollars
annually Is to be put through
The army reorganization bill, which
Is hung Up to see whether Mckinley IS
to be reelected or not, involves an
increase Of the standing army to &c.
600, with a trebling Of the expense Of
It's maintenance. These are a few brief
samples Of what a continuation Of Re
publican control means to the taxpay-
ers. The Democratic party viii put
the issue squarely before the people.
JACKSON DAY.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-03
INDIANA MAN IN JoLo.
He Writes Of His Experiences In thu
suItnn's Island.

He Writes OF His Experiences In the
s~uItan's Island.
Robert Gray, Of is West Georgia
street, says the indianapolis News,
has received a letter from William G.
Cox, who is serving with company B,
Twenty-sixth infantry, at Jolo, P. l..
Mr.. Cox says: I'VE are 700 miles below
Manila and 100 from Borneo, on a very
pretty island of the same name as
the town we are in CJolo). There is
no trouble here, and we are doing gar
rison duty inside the walled city at
present. When we first came here We
we're stationed about a mile out in the
country at an old Spanish fort We
stayed there until the 18th OF Novem-
Der, then went up to %Zamboanga, which
is 100 miles above here. In about three
weeks we came back here and were
stationed inside the city. We are quar-
tered in an old Catholic church, the
only one In the sulu archipelago, Four
Of us got a pass last Sunday to go be-
yond the lines. We went back up the
mountain. We were gone n day, and
had a very good time, climbing hills.
eating bananas, ~cocoanuts and bread
fruit. The native houses are all built
OF bamboo and up off the ground about
Ave feet. Underneath they keep their
hogs and horses. or water buffalo.
They have to climb up poles to get
inside their shacks, which consist Of
one room. They don't know what
chairs are, and tables they have no use
for. The clothes they wear chiefly
consist Of a pair Of ear rings and a
piece of cloth the size Of a handker-
chief. The much talked of Sultan OF
Sulu' lives about fifteen miles across
the island from here, at Nahum. He,
with his bodyguard, comes over here
once in a while-a bum looking set OF
soldiers. This is the prettiest place
I have seen yet, except Honolulu, and
/ don't think that place can be beaten
for beauty. Our duty is very pleasant
now-drill an hour FIVE days in the
week and on guard every eight days"
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-03

Every Time ne was Hard Up Hc shot
OF one OF Hia roes.
I'VE run across lots of things I'm this
line Of business that would make tip
top newspaper stories" said an old
time accident insurance man to o New
Orleans Times-D Democrat reporter,
but very few Of them ever leak out.
What have In mind especially are at
tempts to defraud tho company As
a rule we let such matters drop, II
the claim Is Withdrawn, but sometimes
we pay when we could clearly win a
suit, simply to avoid the unpleasant
advertisement Of litigation. Frequent
ly the cases are very curious. / call
to mind a fellow in a certain little
town who presented a claim against
our company for the loss Of a toe. Ac-
cording to his story he was cleaning
his pistol, when the weapon went on
accidentally and the second toe Of his
left foot followed suit. He had his
papers made out all right, and on its
surface the case seemed perfectly
straight and honest, but some instinct
warned me that we ought to lnvesti-
gate, An old insurance man develops a
singular sixth sense in such matters,
by the way, and will often spot fraud
without being able to tell how he does
It. I looked into this particular affair
myself and found the claimant limp
ing around with one foot bandaged up
as big as a pillow. When / suggested
an examination by our own doctor he
got highly indignant, but l was firm
and finally he consented. I Had ex-
pected to discover all FIVE toes intact,
but, to my amazement, we found only
two. Three were missing, a couple Of
the stumps showing old scars and the
other a fresh wound. With consider
able embarrassment the fellow ex-
plained that he had met with two pre-
vious accidents Of the same sort, and
I found upon inquiry that he had been
well insured on each occasion. When
ever he got hard up he simply shot
on a toe and re~plenished his exchequer
from the insurance companies. 1t raj
a good scheme. but necessarily had its
limitations, and / told him he might
improve 1t greatly by getting married
and shooting off his wife's toes. When
the lady became toeless he could Sc
cure an Oklahoma divorce and marry
another with a full set. He. was ILL
natured enough to take offense at my
badinage and said we would hear from
his lawyer. We never heard"
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-03

A mar raj going home t his wife
and family. 1t was growing dark. His
road from the station wal a lonely one,
and he was getting along as fast as he
could, when he suddenly suspected
that a man behind him was following
him purposely. The faster he went the
faster the man went, until they came
to a grave yard.
Now" he said to himself, "Ill find
II he's after me-" and he entered the
churchyard.
The man followed him. Vague Wis
ions Of r%eYolvers and g~arrOters grew
upon him. He made a .detour Of a
splendid mausoleum. Still the man
was after him, round and round.
At last he turned and faced the fell
low, and asked: What the dickens DO
you want? What are you following
me for?"
well. sir, do you always 90 home
like this? / am going up to Mr..
Browns house with a parcel, and the
porter at the station told me that II
I'd follow you I should find the place,
as you live next door. Are YOU going
home at all NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-03


Not only did congress adjourn with
out declaring any Philippine policy,
but it was equally non-committal In
regard to Cuba.
Not 3 step was taken by the McKin-
ley majority looking toward the with
drawal OF the American troops and the
fulhllment Of the peldge made by con-
gress. now more than two years ago,
Ito withdraw from Cuba" after expel-
ling the Spaniards, and leave the
people thereof to govern themselves"
This action or, rather. the MONACO
ton OF congress-iustihes Senator
Hale's doubt as to whether the United
States will ever withdraw from that
island. e., 80 long as Mckinley is
IN the saddle.-Grand Rapids Demo-
crat.
General Macarthur reports over ten
thousand Filipinos killed so far in our
war Of conquest Who is to answer
for this butehery at the bar in the
judgment day? And VIII not every.
man who is cognizant Of these facts
become guilty in the eyes OF the Crea-
tor II he IN November votes to con-
tinue in power the men who have.
caused this needless waste Of life
Troy (O.) Democrat.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-03
SERUM TREATMENT FOR DISEASES


Of the virus are made repeatedly into
a horse, until his blood has acquired g
high degree of immunizing power
Then he is bled, and the red and white
corpsucles are removed; for the n
tive properties reside In the fluid pari
Of the blood, that is to say, the serum
This is put up in sealed TASKS, and IL
ready for use. The serum most In use
is the well-known d~iphtheria anti.
toxin, although tetanus a~nti-toxin and
other are also employed occa.
sionally. Physicians are by no means
agreed as to the value Of the serum
treatment Of disease, many claiming
that diphtheria anti-toxin, for example
has no curative properties whatever;
others, again, are equally emphatic IN
their contention that diphtheria is q
much less serious disease since the Sc
rum treatment Of II has come into gem
eral use, and they go so far as to be-
lieve that the time will come when
through this serum treatment. Pas.
tours saying will be realized, that ct
is in the power Of man to make all
parasitic Tor infectious) diseases disap-
pear from the world. Youths Com
panion.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-03
Prevent Plague

are supposed to be st%rychEine, arsenic
and phosphorus, mixed with sausage or
meal or bread in small cakes. The
fumigation is done after the cargo is
discharged, and while the ship has to
furnish the materials and apparatus,
getting them from dealers in the city,
the process is superintendent by the
harbor police. Usually sulphur and
charcoal are burned in iron pots placed
in the lower parts of the hold. All rats
killed are required to be delivered to
the harbor police l am informed that
the results obtained aboard ship are
so good that after two fumigations Of
vessels coming regularly to this port
often no rats at all are found. There
are much greater difficulties attending
the destruction of rats on shore on &C.
count of the difficulty which every one
who has tried must have experienced in
inducing the rats to stay in one tight
place to be killed, and 1 understand
that although a scheme wal formed for
requiring the destruction of rats so far
az possible in warehouses, slaughter
houses and sewers, It has not been sys-
tematically carried out, the danger anc
fear of the plague being diminished
here within the last few months
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-03
Killing Rats to

The crusade against rats at Hamburg
to avert possible danger from the bu-
bonic plague, is receiving the attention
Of the Marine hospital Bureau at
Washington. The Hamburg method
may be introduced into the United
States II the plague becomes more
threatening. It has proved very eff
fective. An officer OF this country, re-
porting to Sergeant-G General Wyman
upon the Hamburg method, writes:
The method is comparatively simple,
and consists Of two parts, the expos
Ing Of poison in the cabins and other
small compartments Of the vessel, and
the fumigation of the hold with sui
phur dioxide mixed with a proportion
Of carbon dioxide. The theory Of the
use of carbon dioxide mixed with the
sulphur fumes is that It makes the gas
more diffusible. The trade Of profess
sional rat-killer or kammerjager exists
here. and a number of these people are
instructed by the port physicians as to
requirements of the work aboard ship.
They lay the poison in the cabins and
other parts as soon as the vessel ar
rives. They keep the exact formulas
'of their poisons secret and change
them occasionally, but the articles used
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-03

The discovery of the serum treat
ment Of disease was the outcome of at
tempts to solve the mystery Of immu-
nifty, OF the well-known fact that one
attack of an infectious disease, such
as scarlet fever or measles, almost al
ways renders a person secure against
eny subsequent exposure.
AS so often happens, in the pursuit
OF knowledge, the object sought was
not found-for the true cause Of i'm
munity is yet to be discovered; but
something of practical value was
lighted upon, namely, a means by
which this immunity can be artificial
ly produced. 1t was found that during
the course of the disease the patients
blood undergOes some change, or ac-
quires some new property, by virtue Of
which the liability to take that disease
is destroyed. Then it was discovered
that a little Of the blood of a person
who has in this way become immune.
injected into the veins of another per-
son who has not yet had the disease.
will render him immune also. AS It Is
manifestly impossible to use human
blood for the purpose named, recourse
has been had to animals. Injections
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-03

Henry M. Stanley in the North AM
erican Review presents a new theory
as to the origin Of the negro race
which Is interesting IN its conclusion.
This is, broadly. that a race suffers
from segregation equally with a ma
ton or a family; specifically. that the
modern negrOid type which we group
generally rs Ethiopian-the type rep
resented by the present day native
peoples Of Africa-is a remnant OF the
direct p%rogenitors Of the white man,
cursed by seventy centuries Of segre-
cation and ~lnbreeding.
Before history was born the early
Asiatics we're known as Turanians.
They we're black-skinned, and their
hair was rather coarse and woody
than fine and straight. This stock peo-
pied India and Egypt from four to 1--WE
thousand years before Christ. When
It came into Egypt It found there the
earlier primitive African, and the two
stocks mingled, making the founda-
tion Of what became the Egyptian
race. Meantime there split on from
the Turanian people probably in the
Indian p%eninsula), a new lighter race,
called Arya C'noble racer. This null
tiplied and expanded, o~verrunning In
dia and driving the older Turanians
west and south. The shock Of the
descent Of the Aryans upon Egypt
drove many of the Turanians there
into the African interior, where they
found Ethiopia (Abyssinia) and be-
came a strong and intelligent nation.
The new Aryan graft upon the soil Of
Egypt proved exclusive. Il warred
with the Ethiopian stock, and forbid it
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-03
Ksep . Dlary for ths 49,.

A baby's record is worth keeping for
h mothers present personal pleas
ure, and for the baby's perusal and
amusement in the future. when the
first smile, the first tooth, the first
short dress and the first ~articulate
words are things in the dim distance
OF the past, remembered by no one, ex-
cept, perhaps, the devoted mother her
self. One Of the dainty books pro
Yided Tor the purpose makes the keep
ing OF the record an easy task and pre-
serves it for reference without din
culty.-Ladies' Home Journal.