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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-05
Fruit for School Children.

Many years since a gentleman promin-
ent in educational circles in California
came to the Islands and became a prom
inent educator. Some seventeen years
years ago he was assigned to the Wailu-
ku school, and realizing the Importance
of planting fruit trees on Maui, he
planted a number of mango, orange and
alligator pear trees in the schoolhouse
yard. Today he sleeps his last, long
peaceful sleep in the Wailuku cemetery,
and the grove of trees, loaded with fruit,
stands as beautiful monument to his
memory, and in commemoration of his
kindly thoughfulness. This is a silent but
eloquent appeal to the people of Wailuku
to emulate his example for the benefit
of those who are to come hereafter. Had
others emulated his example at the time,
Wailuku would today be rich in fruits
for home consumption, with plenty to
ship to the Honolulu market.-Maui
News.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-05

Terms on lots and g. cash. DEEDS
at purchasers expense.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-05
SpreckelsvIlIe Mill.

The Spreckelsville mill is still running.
and it viii probably take two months
longer to finish grinding this years crop.
The output to date is about $1,000 tons,
and there is yet about 5000 tons to be
run, making the total output of the
Spreckelsville for the season $1,000 tons.
The Yield would have been larger but for
the heavy kona storms of the past win
ter, which destroyed or injured quite an
area of cane. There is now no scarcity
of labor on Spreckelsville plantation, and
planting for the new crop is well under
Roadway. Assistant Manager B. H.
Baldwin has taken charge of the planta-
ton during the absence of Manager Low
RE, and Senator H. p. Baldwin will make
his home at Spreckelsvile during Man
ager Lowrie's absence and generally SUI
pervise the management of the planta-
tion.-Maui News.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-05

arrived by Wednesdays steamer, and
are at Haiku.
Rev Alex Macintosh and DR.. Cofer.
chief of the United States quarantine
of Honolulu, made a circuit
of Wailuku, Makawao and Lahaina
districts during the week. They will
take a return steamer from Lahaina
next Tuesday.
Mr. Theodore Richards is at Puuo-
malei, Makawao, for months vaca-
ton.
Leslie Scott is employed in the office
at Kihei
Dr. Dinegar, of Kiaei, visits Spreck-
elsville twice a week since the depar-
ture of Dr. Stith for the Mainland.
BY today's steamer Miss Hall, who
has been visiting at Hamakuapoko, de
parts for the Coast: Misses Lottit
Baldwin and Walker return to Ber
kelley, and Mrs. S. +. Damon 10 hel
home in Honolulu.
Weather: Light showers from tn,
sea
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-05

| is not incurable as many people sup
pose. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters has
never failed to cure the worst cases. 1t
cleanses the system of all impurities,
enriches the blood, makes strong
NERVES and cures constipation, indiges-
ton, biliousness, liver and kidney trou-
| bles. A dose Before meals will prevent
| belching or sourness of the stomach
Try it See that OUR PRIVATE REV
ENUE STAMP covers the neck of the
bottle
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-05
The Government Benefits.

Three years ago there was only one
place in Woiluku where liquor could le-
gally be bought and sold, and today there
are six such places, and yet as a matter
of fact there is not any more drunken
ness if as much now as there was then.
The only difference is that there is not
so much Illicit liquor made or sold now
as then, and the Government gets the
benefit of the changed condition of at
fairs, in the bargain.-Maui News.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-05
Wailuku Plantation.

On Tuesday of this week, the Wailuku
Plantation finished its season run with
total output of 500 tons, the largest
seasons yield on record for this PLAN
tation The yield would have been larger
still had the labor been available for
strinping cane-Maui News.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-05
VALUABLE PROPERTIES
At Auction

BY order of MR. H DOW.
will sell at Public Auction at my sales
room, 60 Queen street.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-05
On Sat urday, August "a,
AT IL O'CLOCK NOON,

the following valuable properties:
list. Residence of Mr. Dow. on cor
ner of Hackfeld and Prospect streets.
Frontage Of 1S5 feet on Prospect street
and 200 feet deep. with back boundary
of Punchbowl. Lot is nicely terraced
and planted with fruit and ornamental
trees. Main dwelling contains four
large bedrooms, parlor, dining room,
kitchen. etc. Large veranda so feet by
8 feet.
A cottage also on the premises con-
tanning rooms with wide verandas;
81 900 of purchase price can remain on
mortgage.
This is an elegant piece of property
and we invite intending purchasers to
visit the place and note the healthy
situation and the elegant view of town
and sea. A party desires to rent this
property for one year at $50 per month
I'd. Lots /, ., 3, 4, 5, 6, I, s, of block
+, of the Kapiolani Addition at Wal
kiki. Total size 2O0x2OO. Lots are sit
mated on Trousseau avenue and are
about 100 feet from the Rapid Transit
car line.
Sd. Lots and of Block at Pearl
CITY. These are about 100 yards from
the Pearl City depot and Will rapldlv
increase in value.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-05
NOTICE.

DURING MY ABSENCE FROM
the Islands Henry Holmes, Esq, will
act for me in all matters, under power
of attorney. ,,,r,,
Honolulu, T. H, July 81, 1901. 1924
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26
why They We're selected.

1t has been recorded that General
Henry Knox, in 1888, was the great
est" of II distinguished officers of the
army, weighing $50 pounds. Noah
Brooks, in his book entitled "Henry
Knox" gives the following incident re-
lating to the generals full habit:
With Captain Sargent, he was Sc
lected to present the hard case of the
starving and naked men at Valley
Forge to the attention of committee
of congress. One of the congressman,
wishing to show his wit and sarcasm,
said that he had never seen u fatter
man than General Knox nor better
dressed man than his associate.
Knox managed to keep his temper
and remained silent. hut his snhor-
dinate retorted, ''The corps, out of re-
spect to congress and themselves, have
sent as their representatives the only
man who had an ounce Of superf1uous
flesh on his body and the only other
man who possessed a complete suit of
Clothes" :,
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26
Two Cruel punishments.

The gantlope, or gantlet, was mill
tary and naval punishment for theft.
A man had to run the gantlet of a
long file of. his fellow soldiers, each
provided with switch, and to prevent
the sinner going too rapidly and to see
that no man, impelled by motives Of
friendliness or Kindness failed to strike
hard, a sergeant walked backward, fac
Ing the said sinner. with halberd
pointed at the latter's breast
After lengthy experiment this was
found to be inconvenient and degrad-
ing, so recourse was had to another
method, variety of the same species
Of torture. The offender was tied to
four halberds. three in a triangle and
a fourth across. The regiment or COM
pany then filed off, the cato nine-t tails
was placed in the hands of the first
man. who gave the culprit lash and
passed on, handing the cat to the sec
ond, who also gave lash. and so the
game went merrily on until the offense
had been xpiated.-London Graphic.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26
Our sxstem Of Notatton

Some system of notation has been
used since time out of memory. The.
first record we have of it is of figures
written with a stick on a fiat surface
covered with sand. Before that all
calculations We're made with pebbles,
beans and the like. Even now the
Chinese do their calculating with little
stones or beads strung on wires, in
frame. The Romans first used vertical
lines-I. III, III. etc.-to express num-
bers. The Arabic figures, which we
commonly use at the present time, are
of much earlier date.
The Arabic system is chiefly valu-
able on account of the great conven-
fence it affords by giving a figure
value according to the place it occu-
pies in the line. BY this system the
most enormous sums can be expressed
by the ten little characters which form
the numerical alphabet.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26
Too Much Apathr.

Couldock's company was once barn
storming through Virginia. 1t was at
Petersburg, and the play was 1.-The
Chimney Corner" All through the au-
dience sat in distressing silence, neither
laughing nor shedding tear although
THE Chimney Corner" abounds with
humor and pathos and the company
then producing it was of great merit
for those times. Couldock appeared to
pay no attention to the apathy Of his
audience until just at the close of the
performance. The concluding lines Of
the play are somewhat to this effect:
You, John, are happy, and so are you,
Ellen; so am l, and so are we all. Let
us hope that our friends the public
share our happiness"
But, to the surprise of everybody,
Couldock fell into towering passion
when he reached these lines, and in
laundering tones he said, "You, John,
are happy. and so are you, Ellen; so
am /, and so are we all except the fools
that have been sitting like stoughton
bottles in front Of the footlights to-
nightp
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26
Cheating the Cat.
scholar.

The meanest man is around town in
many guises and in considerable num-
bers, but the meanest woman is re-
cent discovery. She lives in PhIla-
delphia, and for the sake of saving
cent day she cheats the cat by giving
her each morning saucerful of milk,
and after about two teaspoonfuls Of
1t have been Tapped up she dilutes the
milk with water and continues to do
SO till evening. When demonstrated
with by her husband recently she said
well, the cat doesn't know the diff
ference. 1t looks like milk. anyhow,
and If didn't thin it out for her we'd
have to have 2 cents worth for break
fast each day."-Philadelphi Record
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26
: ROSS

Soren Hansen spent his Christmas
at Kimballton.
Frank Miller shelled corn for Tay-
Tor, last Monday.
Mr.. Krauel lost valuable horse on
last Friday night.
Miss Mary Leonard spent Sunday
at the Quimby home.
Mrs. Eddy's folks spent Sunday at
George Stemm's home.
The shooting match at Ross was
we'll attended, last Monday.
Henry RIMS visited at Ross, Mon
day, with his brother Fred.
Mr.. w. Lyman, from Mason City,
is here attending to business.
Harry Bovaird's folks spent Sun
day at the John Rutherford home.
Mrs. Finch and family spent Sum
day with her relatives, up at GRAY
Dave Darcy has sold the old Lyman
to Mr.. Donaldson the county recorder.
Frank Bamsey and Minnie Krauel
attended the dance at Gray on Friday
night.
Jake Ruhs and Eva Taylor visited
at the Uncle Chas. Priestly home, on
Sunday.
Mollie Bridenstine has gone to
Nebraska to visit her sister, Mrs.
Swablin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Inman Sherman went
up to Jefferson Christmas to eat din
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26

ner with his mother who resides il
that city.
W. Groves, the old blacksmith is in
Ross today settling up his books and
accounts.
Bob Carpenter, cousin of Ottie
Shelley, came Monday to spend holi-
day week.
Mrs. Swanson was taken quite sick
Saturday night and is very low at
this writing.
The young folks were royalty en-
tertained at the Duvall home, on last
Thursday night.
John Durham, from Crawford
county, visited at the George Everett
home on Christmas.
Charley Taylor delivered five hun
dred bushels of corn, Tuesday, to
Leake, at the elevator.
Jay and Van Brldenstine are home
on a vacation from Chicago, where
they are attending school.
The dance at Everett Bates, Monday
night, was not very we'll attended on
account of the bad weather.
80
George Coulter has gone to Cedar
Rapids to pass some time with rela-
tives who reside in that city.
w. Krauel has gone to Atlantic to
attend to business matters, he having
sold his property down there,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Olsen's baby
died, Tuesday night and was buried
in the Mount Zion Cemetery on Sum
day.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26
The Last Glndlatorial Combat.

Gladiatorial games were prohibited
by an edict of the Emperor Constan-
tine in A. D. 1875, but from some cause,
probably the loudly expressed disap-
probation of the people, the edict was
allowed to fall into disuse, and it's pen
alties We're never visited on its vio-
lators. During the reign of Honorius
the defeat Of the Goths in Italy was
celebrated by games, but in the midst
of the fights in the amphitheater of
Vespasian a monk named Telemachus
found his way into the arena and part
ed the combatants with large pro-
cessional cross.
The populace swarmed over the bar
ricades and tore the monk to pieces,
but the moral effect of the heroic act
was permanent, and in A. D. 4O4 an
imperial edict abolished gladiatorial
sports in the Coliseum and shortly aft
er throughout the Roman empire. The
fight stopped by Telemachus was the
last in the Coliseum, and that structure
is now consecrated to the honor of
Telemachus and the Christian martyrs
who persisted in the prosecutions by
Nero and other emperors.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26
RUBBER HISTORY.
Ran That Came With Columbus Saw
Haitians PInyinR Bnll.

''The world was a long time learning
the uses and value of rubber" says II.
r. Armstrong in Ainslee's. 'sFor two
centuries after the Spaniards saw the
gum in the hands of natives of the new
| world it was little more than curios-
ity. Old Herrea, who went with Co
lumbus on his second voyage, made
note of an elastic ball which was mold
ed from the gum Of a tree. AT their
games the nude Haitians made it
bound high in the air. The Aztecs were
familiar with the gum and called it ule,
and from them the Spaniards learned
| to smear 1T on their coats to keep out
the wet. They had crossed the seas
for gold and never dreamed of time
when the sticky milk the uncouth In
dams drew from strange trees would
be worth more than the treasure of the
| hills.
"Jose, king of Portugal, in 1866, comes
down to US as the wearer of pair Of
boots sent out to Para to be covered
with waterproof gum. Yet 800 years
We're to elapse before a Connecticut
Yankee should make pair of boots Of
rubber which would not decompose
DR.. Priestly, author of work on Per
spective,' now forgotten, recorded that
caoutchouc pronounced kachook) was
useful in small cubes for rubbing out
pencil marks; hence the name rubber
The India linked with it refers to the
savages who gathered it in the Amazon
wilderness. DR.. Priestly's cubes were
half an inch long and sold for shil-
lings, or IS cents, apiece-a stiff price,
for the finest rubber today is 81
pound. Its price for ten years has
ranged from GO cents to $1.O9.
'The conversion of the gum to useful
purposes made but slow Roadway. The
first waterproof cloth in 1907 was the
work of an Englishman. 1t was tenta-
tive, and, of course, it would not stand
heat In 1923 Charles Macintosh of
Glasgow discovered naphtha and, dis
solving rubber in it, produced a varnish
which, when spread on cloth, made it
really impervious to water. Most Of
the rubber used in the world still comes
from equatorial South America, and
the forests where the Indians gathered
ule are as dense today and almost as
little known to white men as in the
time Of Cortes.''
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26
MetNnhQH

The Minneapolis QKan.) Messenger
says: I'VE once heard Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait eulogize Mrs. Stanton,
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Susan B.
Anthony as follows: These are the wo-
men who laid themselves down in the
dust. as it were, to form bridge over
which you and might go dry shod.'
Once we heard the president of
Brown university describe the old char
ter oak. first as safety vault. then as
hearthstone. and at last he made a
lightning change and brought out the
old tree as the rudder to the ship of
state. That beat anything we ever
heard and the greater surprise, 0,
coming as it did from such profound
scholar"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26
Cats.

There are two curious things about
cats that are not generally known.
Yellow hairs. however few in number.
always indicate the female. No male
ever had the slightest tint of yellow.
That is one curiosity, and the other
is that blue eyed cat is always deaf.
10 be sure. blue eyed cats are scarce.
and 1t is possible that some deaf cats
may not be blue eyed; but wherever
you find blue eyed cat that feline
Is absolutely incapable Of hearing thun-
der.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26
Portuguese Hotel Clocks.

1t Is the fashion for Portuguese
clocks to strike the hour twice over.
Heaven only knows why, for certainly
the people are not so keen about the
profitable use of their time that they
require to be reminded thus of it's
flight. The habit is apt to be irritating,
especially in the night, when your bed,
like enough straw mattress and "a
bran pillow, chances to be near one of
these monsters which dings it's four
and twenty strokes at midnight, with
pause between the dozens which
merely stimulates expectation. If there
are five clocks in the establishment, all
with sonorous works-and the SUPPOSE
ton is reasonable-they will, of course,
differ widely, so that twenty-four may
be striking, with intervals, during q
maddening half hour.
You may happen to want to know
badly which one Of the monsters is the
least mendacious and the bells at your
bed head communicate with two serv-
ants, one a Gallego and the other a
Portuguese. In such case ring for the
despised stranger without hesitation.
He will be with you in minute, fresh
and smiling, though half naeed, and
ii he distrusts his own Judgment about
the clocks he will not mind saying so
and hasten to awaken the landlord
himself rather than that you should
remain in doubt.
l regret to add that his more conceit-
ed fellow servant will more probably
say whatever first comes to his tongue
more heedful of his own comfort than
of your Observation-Disclosures Journal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26
Ancient Bu,1aera,

In Lahore there is or was a massive
building made only of bricks and NOR.
tar. but the builders, who erected it in
about 800 B. c., understood their bust
ness so well that the fabric defied the
engineering efforts Of four successive
governments to remove it. India, too,
can show plastered buildings white and
shiny like marble and as smooth and
polished as glass.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26
Beat Us on Time.

"Oh, come now, s'y!" exclaimed the
Brtisher. you must admit we're
ahead of you in grite many w'ys."
I'm one great particular admit you
are" said the Yankee.
and that is?"
"Time. It's o'clock In London, and
it's only 3 here" Philadelphia Record.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26
Juvenile Reasoning.

Mr.. Wise-.Johnny, can you tell me
why the little hand on my watch goes
faster than the big one?
Johnny (after mature refiection)-
Papa, isn't it for the same reason that
! have to run when l go walking with
you?-EXchange.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26
An Acquired Taste.

Yes, there is something in namsz
There's my wife, for instance"
what about herr"
"Why. her first name is Olive, and
didn't like her at all at first. "-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26
Not Neglected.

Dobbs-You ought to do something
for that cold of yours. A neglected cold
often leads to serious consequences.
Mobbs-This one is not neglected.
Four or five hundred of my friends are
looking after it.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26
Voting Contest.
following is the standing of the
contest of the second citizens

following is the standing of the
contest of the second citizens
lbon Fire Department
Ole Church, Audubon
ckah Lodge, Audubon
stan Church. Audubon
,bon Agriculture Society
o. Society
|. A., Audubon
,yterian Church, Audubon
hbian Club
h Conservative Club
nth League, Audubon
'yterian S. S., Audubon.
st Church. Audubon
lamlin Presbyterian church
len Lodge, Audubon
81 Church
lbon M. f. Church
ania Church, Audubon
eran Church Lincoln Center
yterian Church Aid, Audubon
r.. Lodge, Audubon
ut Church
lie M. E. church.
ger Church, Lincoln
,elical Church, Audubon
amlin M. E. Church
alton Church
loselical Church, Hamliu
vaneic Lodge, Audubon
lasolE lodge, Audubon
i; P. G.
S Ia church U. b.
Center church
Church, Ross.
Lodge, Kimballton.
!. zee Lodge
laccaF Valley U. B. Churcn.
den b Brotherhood, Extra
Danish. F. Lodge, Audubon.
o. Chen Lodge, Viola Center
Voodrn Church
ierma to the long list we will not
wingIhe name Of any society until
fish Eill have reached 500 or over
,ote unit. The above societies have
AMOS amount.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26
OF Benefit To You.

|chell, FnlfOrd, Md. "Duringa long
Mitas troubled with bed sores, was adj
, II WI Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salve and
| try| wonderful results, was perfectly
Il titbs the best salve on tie market" Sure
d II ifts, sores, burns. Beware of counter
I'd ilk Dofing &Co.