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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-10
That Valuable Lot

Southwest corner King and Kekaulike
streets. fronting 80 feet on King street,
by 101 feet on Kekaulike street.
Upset price, $4,000. Ten thousand
dollars can remain on the property at
8 per cent.
Terms-Cash on delivery Of deed.
The purchaser will be guaranteed an
opportunity to lease the property at
once, If he wishes to do so, on a forty
years lease. at one hundred and TWEEN
ty-five dollars per month, ground rent,
payment Of rent to begin July 1, 1902
The lessee to pay all taxes and assess
ments. and to erect forthwith on the
premises brick building to cost not
less than ten thousand dollars. The
building to be kept insured for ten
thousand dollars at lessee's cost for the
benefit of the lessor. In the event of
loss insurance money to be used in
rebuilding.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-10
we VIII be
AT HOME

10 our friends after January 18th.
We take this method of tbanIzinp our
many friends for the very liberal pat
ronage extended US during the past
year, and especially the holiday season
Just closing, and in our new quarters
we VIII use our utmost endeavors to
merit a continuance of the same. We
VIII keep constantly on hand a FIRST
CLASS STOCK of the fastest things in
STATIONERY, and the Standard
Books, with the best selected line of
new and popular Books that can be
obtained, both in cloth and paper bind
ings. Trusting that this will be a very
happy New Year to all, we are, as ever,
yours, truly. ]. NJ. WEBB.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-10

THE ADVERTISER Is DELIVERED
TO ANY PART OF THE CITY FOR
rs CENTS PER MONTH.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-04-05
n Prairie e Blizzard
Story Of a NarroW Escape
From Death on Vest
ern Plains.
The winter of 1sSO-S1 vii, long he

THE winter of 1sSO-S1 will long he
. remembered ffby the residents OF
& Southern Minnesota, Southern Dako.
ia, Iowa and Nebraska. as one of ex.
traordinary severity as to- snowfall and
high winds or billiards.. s.
commencing with a heavy fall snow
NOV. l, it continued until April: snow
storm and blizzard succeeded each other
With but little intermission, until that
vast prairie in the states, and in the
tnen territory named, was impa ssa bile
70 any others than pedestrians,
My duties as commercial traveller for q
81. Faul hrm required my trayersing each
J month : a large part OF that ( prairie. 40
Ialr and inviting during the summer, but
SO SO oleak and dangerous wien swept by
blizzards. s - -, =.
During this severe winter. however; 7
found it quite impossible; to make the
rounds. 1t was while attempting to do
so that I met with the following adven-
ture: - S .sr. : =. 80 1890 -
Ihe line Of railroad over which T was
attempting to make my way was the
9louA city division of the Chicago, st.
faul, Minneapolis & OMAHA which had
already--though early in the winter-had
70 suspend operations several times for
Two or three days at a time, and I
nave waited for two days at st. James,
Mimi, for a south, iEor westbond train
When the train dispatcher = announced,
early in the evening, that the company
would set thetrack clear of snow in On
hour or two, and that a train would start
Tor Sioux City Immediately thereafter.
AT about IL p. m.,. we pulled out; our
train OF five cars requiring two engines,
as the snowdrifts had already assumed
pretty large proportions, and considerable
power was necessary to pull the cars
through snow cuts. as high as their roofs
and barely wide enough to squeeze
through r: !.sE7,.ss<.3 So ~. b..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-04-05
MEDICAL NOTES.

DR.. Elgood, writing In the Lancet re-
cords a case which may serve as a
warming to all who use stoves. Two Won-
en- were washing in a workhouse laundry
crowded with stove and a large, not
air drying room. The elder woman want
ed to cook some pota toes on the I'D or
the stove and built up an unusually hot
fire, closing the windows that the extra
heat might not be noticed outside. Some
time later another woman opened the
door and found both women insensible,
stretched full length upon the floor. One
revived and survived, but the elder died.
The survivor remembered nothing OF the
circumstances but that she felt a swim
r,y'' feeling In her head and sat down on
a bench near the door. An investiga ton
showed that coal had been heaped into
the stove until it had covered the inner
opening of the stove pipe, thus blocking
the f1ue and sending all the fumes and
gases into the closed room. In the ordi-
nary type of American cook Stoves such
An accident could not easily occur, but in
some parlor stoves tie flue may be par
TALLY or wholly blocked. With the drafts
closed, however, a quantity of carbonic
oxide and carbonic, acid gas, given OF by.
the coal, especially during incomplete
combustion, fills the room and causes at
least a severe headache and general
tired out feeling. which is referred to
anything But the right cause. This Is as
.rue Of the kitchen stove as Of the rarlor
heater, and many housewife is made
miserable by slow poisoning by coal gas,
which becomes in time chronic, there be-
ing an actual alteration OF the blood
In summer this Is not noticed so much,
because the windows and doors are open
and the foul air is diluted and rendered
less noxious by the ingress Of fresh s.r
from without. but as soon as the cod
weather necessitates the closing Of the
doors and windows the housewives head
ache begins and she does not realize that
she is suffering from stove. headache
When the GOAL is run under full blast, In
She sleeping room. 1T is not exceedingly
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-04-05

ttianK-a deputy Sheriff from Window, q
station twelve miles farther southwest
who told me that he had left his horse
in a deserted stable about four miles to-
ward Window, the night before and
come in afoot and that as soon as the
blizzard should abate enough to render
1T possible he was going to start fol
Window
S 10 his suggestion that should accom-
pany him I gladly assented, for I knew
that at Window could get something fiji
to eat, should we succeed in reachins
there. .ss 20 =
At about 9 o'clock a. M, as the vino
had slackened down to about the velocit,
OF an ordinary gale, and as, from thu
erection in which it blew, we would not
De Obliged to face it, Mr.. Blank thought
1T safe to make a start, which we did al
once, following the line of the railroad
1.-THE only, evidence of which, = in MANY
places, was the tops Of telegraph poles)
which ran about southwest, the wine
coming from tho northwest and blowing
-sQuarely across the track . >
After about an hour Mr. Rlark said,
1--WE had like out here, think
this is about opposite to where I left nv
horse; so we left the track on the south
side. When we had taken but a few
steps turned 20 So how far we had
gone. bu found could no see at al
When facing the storm, as the fine par.
tlcles of blowing snow stung like nettles
and one could not keep his eyas opar
and face it. ~ ~ -
Presently we came to a fence, which
rae we knew by seeing the top of g
post peeping through I'll" snow occasion.
ally, and I felt encouraged to believe
that a house must be near, Suddenly ws
found ourselves almost on top of tbs
house, which was surrounded Oh all sides
by drifts higher than the building slo-
ping abruptly down to the base of it, bu1
strangely enough, as it seemed to me
coming hardly in contact with it,
Sliding ruptly down to the door, we
Knocked and were greeted by a comfort
able-appearing Norwegian woman She
admitted us into costly warm room
which was a surprise. as we had seen nc
fuel. I'D v ~. -
On my expressing my establishment she
LED me to the back door. and showed me
a tunnel leading under the snow to the
Woodpile, which, luckily for her. was a
bountiful one. 81 49,.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-04-05
THE s'STUDY" OF POETRY.
A Protest Against 1t by John Essx-
rOU::IS.

rOu.hS.
Young men and young women sec11cselix-
go to college to take a coarse. H.
Shakespeare or Chaucer, or D.ute. M,
the Arthurian legends. The cdursss Ese-
comes mere knowledge course. My swra
first acquaintance with Milton mas
through all exercise in grammar Ne
parsed "Pagadise Lost Much uc akae
current college study of Shakespeare. .4s
little better than parsing him. The class
falls upon the text like hens unoxg q
bone in winter; no meaning of WORD al-
phrase escapes them, every line is Msss--
ally picked to pieces; but of the fa,rf
himself, of that which makes him vcg,,ss
he is, how much do they get? VERY lit
tie, fear. They have had an intellectual
exercise and not an emotional ,eEpsE6-~
ence.: They have~:ldGed to their ksosex-
edge, but have not taken d step ia evil
ture.- To dig into the roots and or5saz1ss
of the great poets is like digging into t&as
roots OF an oak or a maple. the better
TO increase your appreciation Of 1fae
beauty of the tree. There stands The
tree in all it's summer glory; wiu Eosa
really know it any better after YOU iasys.
laid bare every root and rootIet2 Tysss-e
stand Homer, Dante, Chaucer, Shakes
peare. Read them, give yourself To them
and master them if you are man ezstsrass.a
The poets are mot to be analysed: they
are to be enjoyed; they are not t., ba
studied, but to be loved; they are nof fog
knowledge, but for culture-to, enhance
our appreciation of life and our mastery
over it's elements. All the mere f;aefs&
about poets work are as chafs ez.src-
pared with the appreciation of aEse fssis
line or fine sentence. Why study a s<F.sIt
poet at all after the manner of the dis.
sectlng room? Why not rather seek 10
make the acquaintance of his living sasis.
ana TO feel its power?-Century.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-04-05

IT was q beautiful night, perfectly clear
and bright, with nearly full moon; tho
snow sparkling as brightly as the myriad
diamonds in the sky" and the mercury
low enough to give an exhilarating crisp
ness to snow and atmosphere.
We had gone about fifteen miles, when
we came to sudden stop; the bell cord
was pulled rapidly through the coach,
and we realized that we had stuck fast
IN a too narrow cut through a huge,snow-
drift, and that our engines had broken
loose and gone on, leaving the whole
train behind, without feeling the loss,
each engineer doubtless thinking that
the other had crowded on more steam
and thus accounting for the increased
speed.
We found the drifts so high we could
hardly climb out, but having done SO.
Conductor Graham located us our po-
sition as about three miles; from Noun
tain Lake station-so named probably be-
cause there is rot g mountain, great or
small, within hundreds of miles CT there.
The engines did not discover that they
| had lost anything until they reached the
station; they did discover, then, that
there was a little something missing, ard
returned for us.
left the train at Mountain Lake, and
here my troubles commenced; for it was
the last train to pass over that portion
of the country, where the best ones were
bad enough.
II nad come TO be very cold BY now,
and = nearly froze my ears and nose,
While rapping furiously at the door try
ing to awaken some one to admit me-
The landlord finally appeared, and usl,-
cred me into a. 7x9 upper chamber, uI-
warmed. and with coating of frost a
half inch thick, gltstening all over the
ro.ghiy-piastcred walls and ceiling
Shivering, I crawled into bed and went
to sleep, 70 be awakened in the morning
by the shrieking and bowling Of another
blizzard; and groaned at the prospect
OF being snowbound ain that miseratl !,
place; a groan that was repeated when,
with sinking heart, sat down to a
breakfast of salt pork, scggy boiled po-
Statoes and vile coffee.
At the breakfast table found d COM
panion In misery, in the person OF Mr..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-04-05

OF the bazaar touts: to look out for a
pearl Of the size he wanted and bring it
to him. Soon afterward man came to
ms rooms and produced pearl which he
said was exactly what Mr.. Eddy wanted
and he asked $35 for it. On examination
Mr. Eddy was astonished to find it was
his own, and proved it, to the consterna-
tion of the man, by fitting it to the
broken setting in his possession. An at
tempt had been made to remove the por-
ZION OF the setting attached to the pearl
but this had been abandoned for fear Of
breaking the gem After some discussion
the man declared he had paid s1S for it to
a stranger, but when Mr.. Eddy offered
to ask the police to assist in finding him
: he said he would manage by himself if
Mr.. Eddy would give a reward This, Of
course. lie agreed to. -Lonfon Telegraph
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-04-05
The SIN of GIuttopy.

Eminent physicians continue to send
out warnings against the sin of giuttony,
but with little effect on the community.
The growth Of diseases directly attribut-
able to overeating increases. and the
death rate gives solemn warnings that
seem to be unheeded The case is all
the worse because most men who are
heavy eaters take no exercise and thus
double the danger. An eminent physician
has just given an argument against bIsi-
ness men eatin gthree hearty meals a
day without taking any exercise. He
says that man who works in the open
air can eat as much as he feels like, but
that the man of sedentary habits who
partakes Of meat three times day is
simply laying up trouble for himself and
making 1t necessary for insurance compa-
mics to chance the Tates.-PhiJ1ds.ph ia
J,qui-er.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-04-05
0fF8U Snffe.Enca

AS one turn into the Heiligengeist Strax.x.
not very far from the kaisers palace in Ber-
story Of house No. 80, bust carys<b ia ss,o.s.
This is called the ''Neidkopf." 1t rer ese,.s "a
hideous, harply-faced woman, with snzs:etkse
curls of hair and tongue sticking ou. IN ux,,s,
ing der1slon and this is the story of it's ssrfcs7s
and purpose: =
one day not very far from TWO, hundred yssty.s
ago ago trederick William Of Prussia OH
Fritz was walking about the streets 81 s,Es.
city, in the shabby, free-and-easy way sa,at
he loved. looking about for some sr,esazss.
to redress some load TO tighten yshIc,, ,r,.ss
an agreeable habit Of this pIafn-livtny king =
Looking in at a window. he was strueS by
the intent industry of humpbacke,e goE,ss,,Jt a
and SO the king entered the LITTLE sfor, f,, :,
chat. =
The result Of his interview was m oras<- Ess
gold table service for The royal npzss x4s.sJ
Wnich made the fortune of the sT.usczsExxeS
Later the King made ether visits to see asyr
the work was progressing, and on one OF ss1ssse
occasions noticed woman in the wfrrs1sx .ss
the opposite house. making the most IrEiesus
grimaces and pointing derisive finger at .t.e
little cripple.
What is the rnat.er with the ST, eue Yr4<-
there?' exclaimed the king.
1t is envy, your ajesty,'' explained sf.ee
artisan She is the wife of rival gaII-
smith, and ever since your majesty give xae
this order she and her daughter hkves 1zss-
ceased to mock and poke fun me-
The king, paternal in punishment as wsfd z,s=
in reward at once made inquiries as 10 glse
ownership of the house in which this ssrKg
band. ard therefore reasoned that there 7EsI.s
little Likelihood of the family moving TIts
seemed to please him
He next sought a Sculptor and rrferr,Y yT1,
to make the bust OF woman with the rr,Iss
shreWish. xantippe-like face he could inzagzpe
The king then bought and renovated the faycrsep
in which the hunchbaca had his wcc5SiEssee
presented it to him. ind caused the busr to he
placed conspicuously above the workr nom kim
dow.
Thus whenever. he envious woman .r7asss
the street looked forth from ner easement siss.
first thing on which her eyes fell wac this Ers--
tended portrait of her araiable self
For more thsn~ona hundred years the
kopf'-sniteful vixen-head, as ore rsoaaa yus
in English-stood in Droul prominence a ae-
Droach to the envious Frau GoldschmJed z,sss
'disappearsd but In 1910. or tlereabouos it wass
cound again in a forgotten collection OF Exss-a-.
brac. Frederick William w bought the hexz<A
Tor q very large price, and had It repzarea In
Its original niche, where 1t stands to-day-3zx-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-04-05
oors between the sitting room and the gar.

doors between the sitting room and the par
Tor. r - .
Lazily posing itself, the bee would fy about
the room until its career was cut short by a
slap from the palm OF Mr.. Clements or some
body else in the house. But another bee would
come forth to take the place of the slaughtered
one. --@-'.
was keeping bees in his house. The discovery
made no particular impression on him until
the other day. when one of them stung him.
Hot water was thereupon procured, and the
spot when the bees issued was deluged with
It,, but hot water was a failure so far as
concerns the determination Of the bees. So
were the other devices for circumyenting in
sect marauders in the homes of men. =
While AR. Clements was still hot upon the
trail CT the bees another member of the fam
lily came in contact with one of the small
the bee was destroyed. couple of pieces OF
furniture We're sacrificed and the happiness of
the family was disturbed. = ~
That night carpenters We're sent for and
upon the day following there was a sound of
loud hammerng and ripping and tearing OF
wood. Mr.. Clements. from another part of the
house, directed the attack. .a.:
The workmen tore away a couple of parti-
tons, and then discovered that a whole swarm
Of bees had taken up it's abode there Many
had perished, but still there was a large active
contingent, and they resisted the intrusion. But
sweet were the fruits of victory.
SIX >ney; bushels Of it, shouted one of the
carpenters, tearing into the room where Glenn
ents was sitting. - - 4 .'~'.:.> -.
Further Investigation, after the bees had
been driven away, showed the presence of thir.
ty pounds of delicious honey. 1t cost Mr. Glen.
ents $1s5 to put his house in repair.-Cincinnat
T,nnnlJirer.4
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-04-05
i Editorial DIN cuItieS-

The troubles OF editor mary Eesidea
the difficulties inherent. in making his PAPER
satisfactorily, he often has live up to rep
utaton for lmtless knowledge. For MANY
people he is an oracle, and the column headed
Notes and Queries something similar. &F
his mouthpiece. Philadelphia paper received
communication bearing psrtneEtly this
matter. 1t follows:
Dear Editor Will you kindly inform me by
return mail what number OF seeds con-
tanned in seventy three to seventy-fire pounGE
pumpkin, as 1 wish to settle argrzrnente''
A Western parallel to this request lies in an
unhappy experience of an editor who MORN
ing received two letters from subscribers. The
first anxious father. wrote to find out the
best way to bring up his twin babies in health
and happiness. while the other, farmer.
wanted to know the quickest method of getting
rid of grasshoppers-
The editor hesitated. them out OF the 1ullness
his knowledge, he wrote two letters in reIay
But In the haste of business he put 1iaa letters
into the wrong envelopes
Inc next morning the father OK tho twins re-
celEed this interesting answer
cover them carefully with straw and set f5zs
10 II. After Jumping in the flames a few INC
Inents the little pests will De speedily DOM
for.'' 49,
And theman VINO was troubled with graxshorN
pers was hidden to give castor Oil regularly ia
moderate doses and rub their gums with -
bone" ~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-04-05
Rough Only in
= Their CART.

H&A NE generally thinks os pioneers
and miners as rough Often
~ tough. and always profane> sczass~
w OF men. Probably fiction is
largely to blame for this. which
frank Ashton of Mexico, Il mining en-
glneer, says is a false Impression .s
have, been out walking LID z.rt, ,5o,.,,
Boardway," he said at the Fifth Axenas
hotel, land looking at the faces and list
enlnS to the converse lions of the pex,p,e-
passed. 1t may strike you as odd. Iszs
feel sure from a long experience in min
ing camps, and life spent largely s,yg
the very edges of civilization. that Tire
relative proportion of educated and rs.-
ally refined men is greater in such srS-
tlons to-day than it is in the city of New
YORK, or any great city for THAT matter
I'ne meets in the mining camps of this
continent a surprising number Of ssass
educated and cultivated men, not q few
of them college graduates Their gesy.
life seems to have broadened THAR Views
and purged out of them MANY CONVEX
tional. notions. They are often excellent
conversationalists, with wide store nj
information, and always kind
thoughtful of others and chisalrous tc,
the few women they ever see They
never keep thier seats in car while 81
woman was standing, for Instance ! re.
member once crossing the great range
that runs through Mexico and coming
down the divide on the Pacific side into.
q wild valley where there was a mining
camp of six Americans, almost ous-
post Of the world. They represented the:
pioneer instinct of the Saxon, I thought
them. And found they Also
represented the best of the Saxon kind:
ness, and one of them, at least the best
Of it's culture. He was college grad
uate and as well-educated and refined
a man as one would expect TO meet lsEi
the East. Out Broadway have met
a larger proportion Of cheap people than
have ever met in the rough camps OH
the frontierS."-NeW York Tribune.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-04-05
~gnderings of IL Pearl.

MT. Eddy, the American charge dat
FARES at Copstantinople, possesses a
pearl which has had some remarkable
adventures. 1t was given to him when
ne was eighteen, and is set as a SOLITAIRE
stud. Two years ago he lost 1t on the
staircase of big Paris hotel, and after
two days it was brought back to- him.
About five weeks since Mr.. Eddy went to
the circus and suddenly noticed the pearl
mad gone again. He at once advised the
circus authorities, who searched the
whole building without success. and Mr.
Eddy gave up all hopes of recovering it.
Last week he was in the bazaars in SIAM
boul and tried to obtain pearl to fit
the body of the stud. AS he could not
lind one which suited him. he told some