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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-08

Another large deckload of feed ar
rived at this port yesterday morning
on the four-masted schooner r. w.
Bartlett It consists of 3,1S5 bales of
hay. which fills the entire deck from
the deckhouse aft to the forward
winch. The load itself is seventeen
feet and nine inches high, but as there
are about 1.2OO redwood ties under the
bales, the wooden structure in which
twenty feet over the deck. Although
the deck is over two feet from the
to place the ties under the feed in or
der that any water which might splash
tween the ties without touching the
hay. The whole load looks like a
large house, encased as it is by boards,
and covered by tarpaulin. Forward it
separates into two wings running one
on each side of the foremost and the
galley. Several ladders had to be rig
ged up at different places to enable
the crew to get around, the one from
the entrance to the forecastle up TO
the top of the deckload being quite a
long one. In her hold the vessel has
feed, and on the bottom she has $4,000
bricks, which helped materially to
steady her, and consequently overcame
great deal of the crankiness which
so tall a deckload would necessarily
cause. AS it was, the whole passage
had to be made under single reef.
The Bartlett made the run from San
Francisco to this port in eighteen
days. When she was about 200 miles
south of San Francisco she met heavy
rains. and during all the rest of the
trip the weather was wet. In the be-
ginning of the voyage the winds were
mostly light northerly and northwest
erly. until about three days before
reaching port the trade winds were
encountered. She is at present lying
at Emme's wharf, where she will dis
charge. She was prohibited by the
rain from doing anything yesterday.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-08
Live Wire on the Front

There was excitement along the wa
terfront yesterday afternoon caused by
a live wire on Queen street, near the
boatIanding. An electric light wire
broke and fell across Queen street, by
McCabe. Rennie & Cos building, where
it lay burning and suffering, throw
ing sparks in all directions. a crowd
of boatboys, sailors and other fire.
quenters of the waterfront collected,
and as it is quite a busy section of
the street, it looked for a little while
as if there was going to be a blockade.
Luckily, one of the courageous MEM
bers of the police force. Charley Wills.
was handy. He CALAMITY tackled the
wire as he would anyone who obstruct-
public road. and managed, by pushing
with his club. to get the wire out of
the way. The electric company sent
men to the place a little later and the
trouble was repaired.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-08
EXTRA STRoN&
ROPE AND BLOCKS
y TO HANDLE :
MACHINERY.

We carry In stock a special s-strande
ca rope 81 and AZ inches IN circums
terence manufactured TO our order.
This rope Is IS per cent stronger than
ordinary 3-stranded cordage.
We also carry extra strong blocks.
lifted with metalllne or roller bushings.
Plantation managers will be furnish
ed with any information In reference TO
equipment for handling heavy weights.
oy our manager. Captain c. J. Camp
cell.
A full stock OF well-boring rope
Wire rope OF all descriptions and
blocks and other equipment Tor the
same.
Steam pIow rope. guaranteed to be the
oest In the world. I
Special wire and Manila ropes manu-.
eactured to order.
A full line OF paints. oils and var.
nIshes Of superior quality. especially
manufactured to Withstand the actiop
Of sea air.
L.anterns and lamps for ships Use.
anA>e full stock OF general ship Gland:
wllSkR's s7EAAsHle4o..
CHIP cHANpLERY DEPARTMENT.
Captain c.N CAMPBELL. Mgr.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-08
Maggie Russ Arrives.

The American schooner Maggie c.
Russ arrived in port yesterday morn
ing. after a passage of twenty-five
days from Mendocino. During the first
week out little Roadway was made on
account of the Gains. but after this the
vessel ran into a strong southeasterly
gale which lasted for three days No
damage was done. however, and the
rest of the voyage was uneventful.
This Is the first trip the Maggie Russ
ever made to this port, and her mas
ter. Captain Johnson, has never been
here before. The Russ brings a cargo
of about 100000 feet of railroad ties.
much of it being carried on deck She
is lying at the Railroad wharf. where
she will discharge.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-08
WILDER'S STEAMSHIP co.
NOTICE.

CHANGE IN PASSENGER RATES.
following change in passenger fares
will go into effect, viz:
Deck rates between Honolulu and the
Island of Hawaii will be increased from
$500 to $500.
Cabin rates between Honolulu and
Hama, Hamoa and Kipahulu, on the
Island of Maui, will be increased from
$500 to $500.
All special rates, excepting to cler-
gymen. will be abolished on the ahove
date.
c. L WIGHT,
1899 President.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-08
Our stock OF
WARDROBES

Is very complete, and We can
fill any want in this line.
We extend an invitation to all
to visit our store at any time,
and we will be pleased to show
them around.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-08
EGGS FOR MATCHING

AFTER NOVEMBER WE WILL
be prepared to fill orders for eggs for
Matching from pure bred White Leg
horns. Price, So per setting; two set
tings, s..
We still have a few fine Coekerels
for sale. WIL.LAMAY RANCH,
Wahiawa, Oahu.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-08
NOTICE.

ANY WOMAN OR GIRL NEEDING
help or advice, is invited to commu-
nicate. either in person or by letter.
with Ensign Hattie E. Larrabee, ma
tron OF the Salvation Army Woman's
Industrial Home. 4SS King street, Ho-
holulu. 1919
Evening star., 1901-09-21
The Wheat Crop of 1850.


The great wheat year of 1850 will be re-
membered by those who knew 1t as long as
they live. 1t seemed as though nature had
made an extra exertion to show what she
was capable of doing The straw grew so
rank that in many cases the stress of
weather lodged whole fields of it even be-
fore the heads were fully filled, and har-
vesting was thus made more difficult.
Never were such great stacks of wheat
seen in Wisconsin fields, and the new reap
ing machinery, which had but short time
before come to the assistance OF the farm
erS was fully appreciated under such con-
ditions. There had been a rather wet sea-
son the effects of which were shown In the
luxuriant growth of the grain, but the har-
vest season gave good weather in which to
gan again. and for weeks the stacks, built
of such loose bundles as were the result of
the large straw, were In many cases SO
badly affected by the water that poured in
to them that the wheat sprouted and grew
in them. On this account thraShing was
difficult work, and the crop was not secured
in the granarieS until far into the winter.
There was SO much wet grain that the
farmers had to store it in sheds and even
in the chambers of their houses and turn 1t
over and over until 1t was dry and fit for
market. Marvellous stories are yet told by
the farmers and those of their descendants
who were old enough to remember the crop
of the large yield from the wheat fields
that year. The price Of wheat following
that crop was low as compared with pre-
vious years, the average being about so
cents bushel but the farmer learned that
big crops usually meant low prices and was
on the whole satisfied, as the amount re-
celVed from such crop was much greater
than came in former years from a small
crop at higher prices.
Evening star., 1901-09-21
bishops Who Jest.
From the London Globe.


The late bishop Of Oxford was generally
recognized as a very serious man. Only his
intimate friends know that he had a fine
sense OF humor, though some stories have
been told Of him which went to indicate
the fact. Many will recollect, for example,
how he once brought down the house at an
Oxford High School prize giving by an as
tonisbing anti-clmax. He spoke with SOL
emnity Of book which 1t was necessary
that every bishop should have about him,
adding: 1T begins with q B." Everybody
waited to hear that he was about to insist
on the value of the Bible, when he suddenly
exclaimed, Its Bradshaw" The new
number Of the Church Quarterly Review
In an article on the bishops life and work
tells another story which we believe the
writer is correct In thinking is now printed
for the first time. DIR. Stubbs was perhaps
able, like st. Paul. to suffer fools gladly
but he could not abide a bore, and on one
occasion he relieved his feelings by the
the expense of the wiseacres with whom he
assisting at a diocesan board:
To the 'petat c'est moi of Louis le roi
A parallel case l afford;
something like II, you see, may be said
about me.
Am not the diocesan bored7
The bishops remark when he was trans
lated from Chester to Oxford has heen
more than once reported, but not aiways
correctly What he actually said was,
Like Homer, l lose so much by transla-
tion;" and the point Of the saying Law. Of
course, In the fact that as his predecessor
DIR. Mackarness, had q retiring pension
Stubbs only enjoyed portion OF the reye.
nue. OF the see.
Evening star., 1901-09-21
FOR CITY HEARTHSTONEs.
hickory and Oak to Burn In Open
F1res-SOme Generous Backlogs.

HlcAory ana oak - to Burn In Open
Ffres-SOme Generous Backlogs
From the New York SUM-
All around the big central open space
where the trucks drive in and terraced
trinity back from it, there was piled up
ABOUT this woodward cord wood Of pine,
hickory and oak. There must have been
thousands of cords of it altogether, giving
to the atmosphere Of the yard a flavor that
was invigorating and delightful. The visitor
found himself breathing deeply Of it and
strengthening up as he breathed
One of the saws here was running on
hickory, the freshly cut wood, which was
being sawed into lengths suitable for open
nrf place or crate fires, having a special
RI 'ance Of It's own.
i-ere Is, 1t was said at the yard "some
demand for hickory wood for broiling fires
at all seasons. but we are saving also the
year round more or less hickory In lengths
suitable for burning in open f1replaces and
In crates, stacking up the wood cut in
summer to season against the time of de-
mand. There are some standard lengths
that we can cut and pile up. 1t is COM
mon thing for us, besides, to cut wood to
order for f1replaces and CRATES III any
lengths that may be desireu
And we furnish 1t in logs Of any size.
In some of the newer club houses they
have great open fireplaces that will read
lily take in big sticks. We supply to one
club, for backlogs in one of it's fireplaces
hickory logs foot and a half to two feet
in diameter.
I'VE supply wood for open fires in many
houses. We have one customer who burns
hickory and oak wood in his furnace
wherewith to heat his entire house In a
very severe winter he found 1t impossible
to heat his house, which stands on a cor
ner and has many windows, satisfactorily
with coal, and he sent here for a load Of
hickory and oak wood. He found by
burning this In his furnace not only that
he could get sufficient heat from 1t, but
that he got no gas or unpleasant odors,
and that the heat obtained was more like
a soft, agreeable summer warmth, and
though 1t costs something more than coal
he has burned wood in his furnace ever
since.
I'VE get hickory wood now from New
York state. and also from New Jersey,
Virginia and North Carolina. 1t costs
more now than it used to In old times away
back. but 1t Is cheaper now than 1t has
been at times. Hickory wood has sold here
for 500 a cord. 1t brings now $16 while
oak wood for CRATE fires sells for s13.'
Evening star., 1901-09-21
Smoking I'm Parliament,
From the London Chronicle.

CnfUnICIe.
The lack Of sufficient room for smokers
and the postponement of the scheme for
further accommodation OF the large num-
ber of smoking members in the house of
commons is likely to cause some discon-
tent, though few would care to return to
the ancient habit of smoking in the house
Even in the seventeenth century the prac-
tice was found offensive, and In the Mer-
GURUS Pragmaticus, under Wednesday De-
cember 20, 164S, is the statement that Col.
Pride stood sentinel at the door and de-
nyed entrance, and caused members to re-
treat into the lobby, where they used to
drink ale and smoke tobacco" About the
middle Of the seventeenth century It was
ordered that no member OF the house do
presume to smoke tobacco in the gallery or
at the table Of the house sitting as commit
tees"
Evening star., 1901-09-21
RECREATION PIERS.
Success Of the Experiment i'm New
York and Elsewhere.

Success OF the Experiment In New
York and Elsewhere.
From Scribner's
The real phianthropist who first sug-
gested the recreation pier must have known
the docks In summer. 1t was a good day
for us when the notion began to work in
his mind. We have six Of them now in
New York, four south of 59th street, and
could get along very well with more.
1t is quite the thing in the evenings.
when the stored-up heat of the day begins
to ooze out of brick walls and mushy as
phalt to take the wife and family from
the crowded stoop to the pier.
There one escapes the sullen discomfort
of reflected heat. but not the crowd. The
benches fill early The babies cry their ,
evening songs. and one must crowd
ones neignbors chatty. rather hot
individuals, who good-humoredly scrouge
close, for it is all part of the days
opera house until the bandmaster raises
his baton, and then an encOre-loving appre-
citation Of what the band does for them.
1t is a jolly crowd, not too noisy. The
slappng tide below, the far-away flare of
the electric advertisements high over the
ping, slipping up and down and across the
river, and the grateful breeze are quieting
influences The bigness of big city seems
to make itself felt along the docks, and
that is not a hilarious thought. 1t Is
pleasing way to spend an evening for any
one. When 1t is all over and the crowd
scatters in the seething, sweating city be-
hind, tugging the children. carrying the
babies or talking with the sweetheart you
than can be got in a vaudeville or on
roof garden.
Evening star., 1901-09-21
ALMA MEETING HOUSE,
One of the Ancient Places of WOrship d
in New England.

IN New England.
From the New England Magazine
The Alma Meeting House looms high on
rather barren hilltop. AS in many of the
Plymouth colonies, it was also the military
store house, and tradition has it that loop
holes were provided above the first tier OF
windows, so that in case Of need the build
ing could be shuttered and converted into
block house. When the building was
repaired several years ago. cavity In the
wall was found filled with old fashioned
nodded bullets. The building. which is
painted dull yellowish brown, Is in good
repair, both outside and in. The beams
measure ~ by IA inches, and bear the
marks Of the broadax. At the entrance
are two old fashioned foot scrapers, relics
OF careful generation and of Wretched
roads. The pewS are of the old-time box
style as at Walpole, each little compart-
nent, entered by door So high are the
sides that were 1t not for the open work
of tiny carved banisters surrounding the
top, one could, even under the preachers
thunder, have mapped very comfortably
and unseen in the roomy retreat. There
are four groups Of body pews, with SIX
pews to each. and bordering three sides
of the building is a string of twenty-five
pews while in the gallery are double rows,
giving in all very large seating capacity.
There are twenty-four panes OF, glass In
each of the present windows, but the orig
window resembled a patchwork quilt.
A twisting flight Of stairs leads up to the
old pulpit. and from this dizzy eminence
the gospel darts were hurled. The builders
evidently realized that preachers are men
of varying stature, for fitted into the pull
pits floor is a series of sliding shelves, or
little platforms. to raise or lower his stand
ing. Each of these platforms Is dented,
scratched and scanned by expressive feet.
over the pulpit hangs the heavy. bell
shaped sounding board, and in the back
ground is a red curtained window, the one
touch of color about the interior
In sorry state of preservation, with
fist-banged covers, Is the old Bible, huge
leather-bound volume, printed at Worces-
ter. Mass, in 1871, by Isaiah Thomas. The
old sexton carefully guards 1t from the
curiosity hunter. II have to keep 1t hid,
he says, cor it wouldn't last SO long old
Brown stayed in heaven, and that, you
Alma Meeting House had no stove until
thrty-five years ago: even then no CHM
ney was built, but the funnel, branching
out over the gallery. was poked through
window for egress. Now q regulation Chin
ney leads the smoke out in the way 1t
should go.
Formerly half garrison house. the Alma
Church has In latter years done double
duty in another direction for now 1t is the
town meeting house, and here the annual
elections are held although it Is difficult to
imagine the mechanism of the modern bal
lot system in operation under the bulging
puIpit'S frOwn.
Evening star., 1901-09-21
Plain, Practical Reasons.


There are other reasons than merely
moral ones why Senator George L. Wei
lington should be expelled from the United
States Senate, where he at present mis-
represents the people of Maryland, to their
intense chagrin. He is absolutely incapacl-
tated for performing the simplest of the
duties that he has sworn to perform, and
he is drawing money that he does no. e3rn.
His degenerate behavior has so shocked
the members of the honorable body of
which he is a dishonoring member that it
is unlikely that he will ever be listened to
or allowed to participate in official busi-
ness.
AS a result Maryland now possesses but
one senator. and is thereby badly crippled
as regards the safeguarding of her !mpor-
tant interests in the upper house Of the ma
tiOnal Congress. The removal of Welling-
ton will give Governor Smith the chance
to appoint a democratic senator IN his
place.
The entire population Of Maryland would
rather have any man in Wellingtons place
without regard to politics. What is desired
is the removal of blot of grease and
shame from the roll of the Senate of the
United States.
Wellington will never be allowed to see
President Roosevelt, who regards him and
his reviling of the martyred Mckinley
with unfeigned and utter adherence. Thus
Wellington will not be able to perform his
duty and protect the interests of this state
by advising the President as regards the
needs of Maryland.
The greatest need of this abashed COM
monwealth Of Maryland is the speedy re-
moval Of the cause Of the unwonted blush
upon the faces Of the Maryland people
That this will be done as soon as Congress
assemblies is almost certainty, and is the
ardent hope Of every living creature with
In the limits Of this state.
Evening star., 1901-09-21
FEWER BIBLES IN HOTELS.

The Copies Once Found Generally in
Bureau Drawers Now Disappearing.
From the New York Sun.
For the past six months I have been
trying to figure out a question in MORALS -
said the man Of experience. Somebody
is on the down grade. Either the proprie-
tors of hotels throughout the country are
becoming demoralized or their patrons
have slipped a cog, and am trying to find
out which it is.
II have been travelling a good part of the
time for the past thirty years, and up to
two years ago 1 seldom put up at a hotel
where 1 did not find a Bible tucked away
in the bureau drawer. But now the Bibles
are missing. l never knew until the little
books became an unknown quantity how
much l had come to depend upon them
as a familiar figure In the ever-changing
hotel life of man on the road.
Il don't take to myself the credit of hav-
ing read the book whenever l might and
should have read it: indeed, I fear that
there are many weeks at a stretch when
1 never looked inside it; but somehow it
gave me a sort of home-like, comfort bile
feeling to see copy lying around in
strange house, and for years my first ac-
ton upon being shown into room was to
open the top drawer and see If the Bible
was in place. If it was there and it
usually was, felt kind of settled for the
night; otherwise was lonesome and out of
sorts.
''These Bibles were provided in different
ways In some places they were furnished
by the Tract Society, which had obtained
permission from the proprietor to place a
Bible in each room Of his hotel but in
other places the management took the In
itiative as stroke Of business policy, and
saw to 1t that the books were distributed
throughout the house.
why the Bibles have disappeared from
the hotels Is what Is puzzling me. Chicago
was the first town to abolish them. 1t
gave me quite a shock when 1 stopped at
one of the Michigan avenue hotels one
night and failed to find the Bible in it's
that matter. I went right down to the
proprietor and made inquiry as to the
change. My attitude in the matter gave
the employees the impression that I was
an evangelist or some other kind Of timer
ant preacher, and their subsequent treat
ment of me afforded the other guests no
end of amusement and myself plenty of
inconvenience, but there is no use talking,
I really was lost without the Bible.
'Since then Bibles have gradually made
their exit from the hotels of other towns,
both large and small I have asked a
good many people the cause of their alb
of explaining. Have the hotel managers
and the Tract Society grown careless, or
do they think that men who travel are past
redemption and that putting Bibles in their
rooms Is polite and up-to-date way of
casting pearls before swine? OF course
there Is possibility that they believe us
to be so good that we don't need Bibles,
but even I, with all my conceit, an in
clined to reject this theory"
Evening star., 1901-09-21
The Potato as Food.

From the Boston Budget.
One Of the known physicians in Wor-
cester declares the potato famine bless
ing in disguise, II people will replace the
potato with substitutes of greater food
value. He thinks, as We do, that there is
none of the articles of food in common use
that contains so little nutriment as the po-
tato, and many others furnish more in
smaller amounts at much less relative cost.
He especially names the shredded wheat
rice, raw cabbage and fruits as more nour-
ishing than potatoes, and, in fact. all grain
foods When the potato rot brought famine
to Ireland the people Of that country were
not prepared to resist it, as they were prob
ably at the lowest condition, both mentally
and physically that the people Of that
country ever were, and thousands whose
subsistence had been for years upon that
root perished from famine; then America
sent them shiploads of corn and other pro-
visions, and those who could do so emigrat-
ed to this country. where they found work
and food Now there. ARE 1those who are
asking Ireland to ship ussall the potatoes
they can spare, not ASA charity. but In re-
turn for such food products as We have in
abundance, or for our good money. The
man who gives a peck, Of corn for a bushel
of potatoes is making poor trade. as far
as food properties go. d.: 10
Evening star., 1901-09-21
A Colony of Outlaws.
From the PHILADELPHIA telegram.

There Is in lower California a strange
colony Of which the outside world rarely
hears. 1t Is made up Of outlaws. and some
Of the most notorious escaped criminals
have taken refuge in it. They live in a
strange. rugged stretch Of country, with
the Gulf OF California on one side and a
range Of foot hills which spread down to-
ward the Mexican border on the other
There are no ports at this point on the
coast Of California, and no railroads reach
ing in from the other direction, SO the men
are completely isolated. They are prac-
tfcally prisoners, because they dare not
venture out but no effort has ever been
made to disturb them in their chosen
refuge. though they have been congregating
there for yesrs