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The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-11

a NEW BICYCLE at $25, $50. $40. $50
$50, SIS.
A TYPEWRITER - BLICKENSDER-
FER, $40. $50; MANHATTAN, 500
PEERLESS, 500.
MIMEOGRAPH, $3.50. S2o.
SAFES FOR JEWELS AND SILVER
WARE, ALL PRICES.
%SS
ELECTRIC BELL OUTFIT COM
PLETE. Get one for the front door,
+ the table or servants quarters
ELECTRIC SCARF PINS. SO.
ELECTRIC NIGHT LAMPS.
ELECTRIC BICYCLE LAMPS.
lELECTRIC POCKET FLASH LIGHTS
Il $3.50, 81, IS, So.
ELECTRIC RUBY LIGHTS, for pho
tographers.
BICYCLE LAMPS, Gas, Electric Oil
from 90c up.
, BICYCLE BELLS, from 25c up.
!, BICYCLE SUNDRlES-
CYCLoMETERS.
WHISTLES.
: DEWEY CANNON.
LOCKS.
wRENCHES.
OILERS.
TOE CLIPS.
n BUNDLE CARRIERS.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-11
NOTICE FOR CHALLENGE CUP

WILL. THE PERSON OR PERSONS
who hold the Rosita Challenge Cup turn
IL over TO the secretary OF the Hawaii
an Jockev club. z. Il. ISENBERG.
200 Secretary.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-11

"SHADOwINGS," by Hearn.
THE STORY OF BETTY" by
Wells.
RUSSIA AGAINST INDIA" by
colquhonn.
"TRUE BEAR STORIES" u Joa-
luin Miller.
ELEANOR" by Mrs. Humphrey
Ward.
"HILDA WADE" by Grant Allen.
THE FOURTH GENERATION by
Walter Besant.
"A FRIEND OF CAESAR" by Da-
| yis.
| BLACK ROCK; A STORY OF THE
| ;ELKIRKS," by Connor.
MOTHER GOOSE FOR GROWN
| UPS" by Carryl.
We request an inspection by those
and before the best goods are picked
Quantities.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-11

no Situate on Eva side of Nuu-
nl street. Just mauka OF Vineyard
fee,, boug lot. slze Sc 4 iO5, with I'M
flvemeuts. also.
No 2-Ndiolnlng lot, size 40 80
WI improvements. also,
No 5-.rhe lot. size Gs x iO4, more
p loss directly opposite, with I'm.
roy'monJs This property IL leased
~ a period of about ten years at a
nonlhly retail % t25 net.
he upset price. or limit, on the
laoye bs follows. No. 4. $4,000; NO
Z 1900, so. q. $4,000. which IL ex-
'f1nl.'y rcnsouable
DIAGRAMS and further particular
la ba obtained from w. u. CASTLE
~. or 1t my salesroom.
WILL Y. FISHER,
Bell Eftta Agent and Auctioneer.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-11

BOY" and THE MASTER CHRIS
TIAN," by Corelli.
RAMONA" Qllustrated), 2 vols.
"SHAKESPEARES WORKS"
13 Handy Vols, $3.50.
THE IDIOT AT HOME" by Bangs.
"QUISANTE." by Hope.
st PETERS UMBRELLA" BY
Mikzath.
ROBERT ORANGE" by Hobbs.
TOMMY AND GRIZEL" by J. Nj
Barrie.
"NACAULEY'S ENGLAND" 5 vols
"HUME'S ENGLAND" 6 vols.
'THACKERY'S WORKS" 10 VOLS
DICKENS COMPLETE WORKS,
Is vols, $3.50
THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL"
3 vols.
who wish to make purchases for the n
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-11

COASTER BRAKES.
SADDLES.
TROUSER GUARDS.
BICYCLE BELLS.
AND A LARGE LINE OF GEN EHAL
SUNDRIES.
10c to S1.50.
BASEBALL GLOVES, MITTS, MASKS
BATS and GENERAL OUTFITS.
BASKET BALLS and GOALS.
FOOTBALLS and OUTFITS.
,ssss
TENNIS NETS, TENNIS RACKETs.
TENNIS OUTFITS.
PUNCHING BAGS. Every boy wants
and needs one. All Prices.
$50
PUNCHING BAG PLATFORM.
PUNCHING BAG GLOVES.
BOXING GLOVES, all sizes and prices.
SPRINTERS' SHOES and SUITS.
GYMNASIUM SUITS.
INDIAN CLUBS.
DUMB BELLS.
HOME GYMNASIUM OUTFITS.
TRAPESE.
HORIZONTAL BARS.
/ WRIST MACHINE DUMB BELLS.
iMFADDEN EXERCISERS.
WHITLEY EXERCISERS, 81, 81, 50, -
S.. $40.
SINGLE STICKS.
FENCING FOILS and OUTFITS.
SET OF GOLF CLUBS.
iCADDY BAG.
lCROOUET SETS.
CHEST H WEIGHT MACHINES
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-11

AN ELEGANT IrNE OF BOOKS
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
Beautifully illustrated Books for the
little folks.
ART Sic CALENDARS AND
CHRISTMAS CARDS.
Full LINE OF BIBLES AND TES-
TAMENTS.
MEM AND DAINTILY BOUND
BOOKLETS TO SUIT THE TASTE
OF ALL.
"GIBSON'S AMERICANS" for 1904.
TOILET AND MANICURE SETS In
endless variety.
FINE LEATHER GOODS,
STANDARD CLOTH, 1z-mos.-oniy
% cents each.
DOLLS AND TOYS OF ALL
KINDS.
olidays while our stock is complete.
p for societies and teachers who buy In
xs IA
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-22
4 Story of Anthony Hope.

When NIT. Anthony Hope Hawkins HFisited America in 1897 he had to go 5shrepgh much interviewing. On one saefasien about twenty reporters gath @red around him in his managers office 8aar Union Square. in New York. The novelist, shy, retieent and almost bash Eal sat at the center table, while the oewsmen stood around him, and the spokesman asked him all manner of l0estions, first of all, of course, how he A6ed America. As Mir Hawkins had 3B}F been in America four brief hours, le was unable to express any opinion s1E value upon the subject. Then came zR quick succession inquiries as to oth ae authors and their relative merits. Probably u question which was the hardest to answer was an important aaa, propounded by self-authorized 5nterrogator. It wasi MT Hawkins, sxhat in your opinion is your greatest Work29 Tt never has been written sfr. was the reply of the Englishman And then deep silence fell upon the %roup.-M. A. P.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-22
SCORPION BY MAIL.
Animal Had CrawIed in the Pamphlet
 while at Jamaica.

A few days ago C. G. Lloyd, the bot anist. received through the mail a pamphlet issued by the botanical de- partment of the colonial government of the island of Jamaica. Upon re- moving the wrapper and strengthening out the folds of the pamphlet there was disclosed the remains of deadly SCOT pfon. It is characteristic of this ven- omous insect to seek a hiding place in anything of tubular shape which Will give it the opportunity of crawling 10 the far end of it's castle and there awaiting the chance of giving some unsuspecting person 8 glimpse of the River Styx. In this case the scorpion, while proving around among the mall sacks in the Kingston postoffce, dis covered the pamphlet and immediately craWled into the opening. Gnfortu- nately for his scorpionship," or fortu- natelv for some mail clerk, the pam phIet was placed under a pile of mail matter in the sack, with the result that the insect was fattened out. Mr. Lloyd yaw= in an instant the nature of the foreign corpse. and wisely putt asIae until he held an inquest. Like an h. dian. the only good scorpion is a dead one. and not even a hardened coroner would dare to sit on one if the thing showed evidences Of playing 'possum. The weight on this scorpion was so heavy that his tail took the familiar curve it assumes when the business end is ready to go to work. The estinger" is forced out to it's full length. MT. Lloyd says that this is only an in- stance of how insects are accidentally transmitted from one part of the world to another. The accompanying danger is correspondingly great to those who handle the mail matter.-Cineinnati Enquirer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-22
TWO ANCIENT ARABIAN WELLa
They Furnish Drink to the Thirsty Tray.
 e1ers Through Desert sands.

In northwestern Arabia there is
 well of the purest water perpetual in
 it's supply, that has existed for ages.
 The Arabs claim 1t was dug by the
 early Islamites. Whoever dug it must
 have expended great labor upon it, for
 it is five feet in diameter at the top
 and gradually enlafges until 1t reaches the water. at a depth of nearly 200 feet. It is lined with heWn stone throughout. However, the L ost re= markable well in the world is Joseph's well, at Cairo, Egypt. It's shaft was exeayated through solid rock to a depth of 165 feet. at which depth it was enlarged on one side to form a chamber, in the bottom of which reservoir was made immediately un- der the shaft At one side of this reservoir another shaft was excayated through rock to a bed of gravel, where water was found. The lower shaft was 130=feet deep, making the total depth 295 feet. The upper shaft was rectangular, 24x18 feet. The lower shaft was 15x9 feet Winding around the we'll a spiral passageway 6 feet inches wide by feet 2 inches high was cut with great care from the sur face of the ground down to the cham Der. Between the well and the pas sageway a wall of rock was left. Horses and oxen descended the pas sageway to the chamber. where they propelled machinery to raise the water in pots attached to a chain from the lower shaft to the reservoir in the chamber. and it was again raised by machinery operated by power on the surface. In the lower shaft a path was cut in it's side so that descent could be made to the water. There was no wall between the path and the we'll. This work is said to have been constructed by SaIadin. who lived in the years 1137 to 1199. Some writers do not mention this, and say that the date of the construction is lost in an- tiquity.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-22
nnria1 Alive Made TmpossIble.

All sorts of devices have been con- triyed to prevent people being buried alive, and many surgeons and physi- clans have promulgated methods by which the presence of death could be absolutely determined. Cost and un- certainty, however have usually yiti- ated these ideas, or have, at least, pre- vented their general adoption. Spe= cially constructed graves proved to be very high priced, and the most -eare- fully devised methods of the doctors sometimes failed to detett the presence of life in a body which afterward sat up talked and lived The latest in vention of this kind seems to be free from these two disadvantages is distinctly cheap and appears to be en- tirely certain. The only objection that can be found to it, indeed, is that it preeludes embalming, but the inventor is at much pains to demonstrate that far more people are prematurely en- balmed than are buried alive. His in- vention, he says, guards against this danger, too. All that is necessary for the succeSSIul operation OI thlS De- troit invention is an ordinary air-tight casltet. some lengths of stovepipe and the body of a person whose death is in dispute. Henry Booth, the inventor, points out that many death is caused by the premature exposure of the body to cold. He therefore directs that when death is supposed to have occurred the windows should not be opened; neither should the body be stripped,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-22
 A SoCIALlSTiC CITY.
Where the Municipal Ownership Ex-
 tends Even to the Cemetery.

Huddersfeld, a city of Yorkshire, England, is perhaps the best illustra- ton of a city governed on socialistic ideas to be found anywhere in the world. Every municipal monopoly is operated for the benefit Of the citizens gas, street cars, waterworks, electric lighting, markets abattoirs 8anitarl- ums, lodging houses and even the cemetery. As to gas, an exchange gives these particulars: Tn 1872 the gas works were taken over, the ob- ject being to reduce the price of gas and increase it's use by the poorer classes. To this end the department Introduced pennv-ih-the-slot meters, which have been so well received that about one-ffth of the population is now supplied in this way. When the meter is Used a stove is supplied and fixed free of charge. Not one penny nend be invested, except for the thirty feet of gas sold for ? cents. This IS a great boon to the poor, #ho ind Il difficult to save enough to purchase
  be returned at 10 per cent of cost price per year. and the department has it's Gwn stores containing styles to suit the poorest or the most fastidious. The price of gas has-been steadily reduced. satil now it is , shillings 3 pence 16t =eents) for lighting and shillings t49 eents) for heating and trade purposes Inded, the city has been 50 eonsiderate of public welfare in every way that practically the whole population con- sumes municipal gas"
 Electricity is supplied in much the same way and throughout the prinej pal of monopolization is carried into effect wherever practicable and possi- ble As everybody seems to be satis- fled with the results obtained Had- dersfefId fay properly claim to be the model socialistic town
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-22
DEATH RATE DECLINING.
Longevity of the Human Race Is In.
 creasing Year by Year.

Longevity of the Human Race Is Ins
 creasing Year by Year.
 From Leslie's Weekly: All who hope and believe that the conditions of hu- man life throughout the world are gradually improving will find practical support for their hope and belief in an address recently delivered before the British Medical association by it's president, Dr. Ward Cousin. Among other things Dr. Cousins discussed the future progress of preventive medicine and predicted a steady and great de- cline in the death rate ill the coming century. For the realization of this great object he looked. above all, and rightly looked to an improvement in the conditions and in the dwellings of the working classes. And he was es= pecially right in pointing ont that this improvement cannot come from mere legislation. @The great mass of the people must become willing and active helpers" he said and in equally true words he showed how largely the pre- vention of suffering and the preserya- llOu Oi ueditu dl 6 W1C1111 CuG 1SdCA4 o1 the working classes in our great towns if they will only cultivate temperance and cleanliness. In this connection we are gratified to observe the action of the New York health board in dis tributing among the people a circular setting forth in clear and simple lan- guage various easy methods to be ob- served for the prevent tion of disease. the spread of epidemics and some sound advice generally in regard to healthful living. This is practical service for the public good and it will undoubtedly be successful to material degree in a further decrease Of the mortality rates.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-22
May Turn Night Into Day.

2 New Orleans architect has advanc- sd lhe novel idea that within the next fifty years the people of every large aeFathern city will do most of their slaaping by day The reason of this ds fie increasing eheapness of artif- el21 light and the peculiar climatic con- saI1anns of the south, which make the night the coolest and most comfortable eiaa1e to work. The author Of this idea claims that darkness is one of the
 s0roas of nature against which civili- sEaSion wages war; that it facilitates 9scrime and impedes travel and puts arbitrary limits on human exertion."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-22
 rha Thrifty Yankee.

The Kennebec Journal tells of man who catches seals, cuts off the noses and gets the $1 bounty offered by the state of Maine, after which he collects the tails and hies himself to Massa- ehusetts, where he collects the bounty offered for the tail of every seal caught in Massachusetts waters. Then he returns to the pine tree state to work the skin into gloves, hats. pocketbooks, etp
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-22
The Good News Spreads

and our b0sIness grows larger, and the prices small CT, every day. People come here from all parts of the city. When ever they need anything in our line, they think of us. We have furnished more cozy homes than we could possibly name. We have done it to the owners satis- faction. and we can do the same thing for you.
 BLUFF CITY
 FURNITURE co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-22
Wanted to Sec the aahv.

Some young women, according to a Philadelphia paper. noticed a foreign looking man pushing a closed baby carriage. Their curiosity was aroused and one of them asked to see the baby that was so completely covered. The man hesitated but finally succumbed to the girls glanees, and, unbuttontng the apron, he disclosed a small, round gentleman, with mustache and Napo- lson, quietly chewing an unlighted cigar. The girls were speechless with surprise and shame for having in truded on the mans privacy, although he was q tiny one, under three feet in length. He graeiously pardoned the women as he stroked his mustaehe, and invited them to see him at the export exposition, where he has just arrived to be exhibited. Then, bidding them gaod-by, he ordered his attenda ant to continue with the daily ride
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-22
sARGEYs DOUBLE.
11as a Great Many Troubles On Account
 of the Resemblance.

VI AiS AAtStiaiDAShuCSs
 "A leather merchant named M. Bonier. who is in business near the Place de Ia Gepublique, is the hero, or the vic st4na, as one likes, of a most remarkable resemblance to the eminent late dra- noatic critic, M. Franeisque =sarcey, gsasrs the London Post. NJ. Bonier has g@s4 been relating his woes to a sym- Ea1hizing josrnalist. He cannot, he GAyE, pass along the street without ob- .saaving clean=shayen individuals start zaEa& turn pale when their eyes light on hin. But worse things befall M. Bon Ter Ia the Rue de Douai a few days agao | we1l-dressed yaung woman faint aad on perceiVing him. When she re- 9eoFefed she repeated in terror-stricken accents, "It is he! It is he!" and the cr0wd, mistaking the reason of her frlghf, imparted to M Bonier the in- e0ITuation that he was an old rascal and ought to be ashamed of himself. Equally amusing was the leather mer- sg-aaat's experience at the ambassadors concert where M Sarcey's former foe, Xvestte Guilbert, is now appearing. The ssinger, noticing M. Bonier, reeited fsogaee verses on the subject of M Sar- ggT, and by her gestures drew the at 1'anfion of the audience to his double. GTas public were delighted, of course, 1ut not so M. Bonier. who got Up and eeS4 xhe eoneert.. NJ. Benier much re- grets his resemblance to the late critic, 1hs results of which he declares to be most annoying to a peaeable trades man He says that one day he was assod in the street for letter of in- Sz111aetion to M. Jules Claretie. which H3 Vexed him that he almost came to Blows with the applicant.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-22
AMERICAS FIRST GEORGE.
asaw Hc Sometimes Tried to Run away
 from His Admirers.

from Ills Admirers.
 Washington was not ehurlish, but 7zs mad that preference for being unob- served that develops at times into a longing in man whose life is spent in public. He quilted the Macomb house .sa the morning of Aug. 30, 1790. The zEeT rants were instructed to steal away sA1 dawn, to have the carriage and lug gage over the ferry at Faults Hook hy sunrise. By candielight, Mrs. washington, the children and the sec ~staries assembled in the morning goen. The president appeared pleased with his stratagem lie was enjoying 1fs prospect of concealed departure. Immediately under the window sud- Slenly struck Up on the still morning air the blaring5 vigorous notes of an artillery band. From the highways and Byways seurrying people ap- peared.= To witness his first step out .ai1e the door 3 thousand goggiing af' se-tionate eyes watched. "There!' cried fhe general, in half-comie de- snair-I cannot think altogether dis 95ieased@sit's all over; we are found 0nt. We'll we'll! they must have 3heir own way it was the genera" tbey waited to see, not the president. They lined the roadway from house to .3arge, recording every movement in s1i5zerqant brains (A distinguished gnan can never know which of his au. S1innee is to be his biographer It may s1e one of the "supers9 on the stage rolling off the carpets The thunder of artillery could not drown the living shout that rose from the throats of the people as Washington was borne off with the rise and fall of the oars g}eaming in the cheerful sun. His voice trembled as he bade the as- stumbled crowd farewell Though ehary soG appealing to it. the love of the peo- pSa uever failed to move him deeply, --EJarper's Magazine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-22
1 Small Marriage Tee.

Squire Durham of Anderson, Ind. lays claim to receiving the smallest marriage fee on record in Indiana. A couple in poor financial condition called on him to be married. The groom said he was in bad straits. but he wanted to pay something, so he gave the justice a cent, all the money he had.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-22
Iron Bearer Than Gold.

Machines in a watch factory will cut screws with 589 threads to an inch These threads are invisible to the naked eye. and 1t takes 144,O00 screws to make pound A pound of them is worth six pounds of pure gold
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-22

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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-20
a PICTURE or cHIfsA To-oAl
Corruption in once Is a Common Oc-
currenre.


Mandarindom literally goeth about
as a roaring lion seeking what it can de-
YOUR, says the North China Herald. Of
fees are held at fixed prices by metro
po.itan and provincial authorities;
taxes are collected in full, but are deci-
mated before they reach the imperial
treasury; "the big fish eat the little
fish, and the little fish eat mud" by
which smile the Chinese proverb ex-
presses aptly the fact that the great
officials feed upon the smaller ones, and
that they in turn feed upon the people.
No official position in the empire can be
obtained without the use of money, nor
retained without illegal practices. If,
then, nothing can be hoped for from the
rulers of China, what can be said about
the student class which is placed at the
head of the four divisions of the people?
This class is conceited beyond cndur-
ance; they still speak Of the ''round
heaven and square earth" and dilate
upon the 'five elements" Foreigners
are still to them barbarians who came
to China to learn the laws of propriety;
the five great continents represent only
divisions of ancient feudal states trib-
utary to their country. and commerce
is despised as only being taken up by
those who have not the mental power TO
master books. They wear large Cog
gies, cultivate their finger nails into
enormous lengths, assume the swagger-
ing gait with which Confucius is said to
have walked, and have silentcontempt
for all but themselves. They regard
woman as their inferior and rightfnl
] siara
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-20
WHY HE CUT THE WIRES.
CycIist Brought Assistance by an In
geniOus Process.

The person who wrote that elec-
tricity was one Of the mighty agents
of nature enchanted by the ingenuit!
of man." says the Electrical Review
can scarcely have contemplate ia his
widest dreams the full extent cf than
ingenuity. For instance, he is scarce
ly likely to have prophesied that a
sick man, far from habitations OF cig-
i.ization, could have cut a telegraph
wire in order to obtain assistance. Aud
yet such has really occurred. The
whole of the vast continent Of Australia
was practically cut eff from European
news for 24 hours in the middle CT
September in consequence of an inter
ruption on the line between Adelaide
and Port Darwin. Inquiries were made.
and ii was found that the wire had been
cut by a cyclist who had been taken
IL while on a journey across the conti-
nent. 1t was not related how he set
about it. but he had the satisfaction
at any rate of getting what he wanted.
1t is not desired to establish this as a
precedent of summoning help under in
convenient circumstances.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-20
TENNYsoN's DEVOTED WIFE
Always the Poets inspiration and 49,,
Trusted Critic.


Trusted Critic.
In 1890, on a path in wood at Sore
ersby, Tennyson came unexpected
upon slender, beautiful girl of IS
and impulsively said to her: Are yca
dryad or an Dread wandering here
Six years later he met Emily Sellwoca
again, on the occasion of the marriage
of his brother Charles to her younger
sister, says the Atlantic Monthly. The
friendship ripened into love and in sum-
mer their marriage took place.
OF his wife Tennyson said many year
later: "The peace of God came into my
life before the altar when I welded
her." OF this marriage the son writes:
at was she who became my fathers
adviser in literary matters. 4 am proud
of her intelligence he wrote. With her
he always discussed what he was wcra
ing at; she transcribed his poem 81
her, and to no one else. he referred ei
u final criticism before publishing
'She, with her tender, spiritual
] ture' and instructive nobility of thong
was always by his side, a ready. ehcer
full, courageous, wise and sympathe ,
counselor. It was she who shielded
sensitive spirit from the Annoyance
and trials of life, answering. for e.
ample. the innumerable letters ad
dressed TO him from all parts of tt
vvor1d