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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-29
GENERAL sToEssEL's PROPERTY

The Globe remarks that fame has
blown with a chill breath of late upon
the name of Gen. Stoessel, but seems to
have left his material fortunes un-
scathed. His wife, 1.-The angel of the
Defence as she was being called about
this time last year by the garrison of
Port Arthur, has just completed the
purchase of house in ST. Petersburg,
for which she has paid the handsome
price of 900 pounds.-Kobe Herald.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-29
THE CAR IS
IRRESOLUTE
Meanwhile the RevoIutionsts Are
Bolder and the Railroad Strike
Is UnreIaxed.
ASSOCIATED Press Cablegrams.)
ST. PETERSBURG, October 20

ST. PETERSBURG, October 90.
Premier de Witte is urging co1u-
plete freedom of the press and
speech and the right of popular
assembly. The Emperor is re-
luctant to go so far. The situa-
ton here is growing worse. There
are 100000 idlers. The govern
ment is irresolute and inactive
and the revolutionists are en-
boldened. Governor General Trep-
offs forces here number 10000.
Parallel conditions exist at Mos
cow. There is no relaxation of the
railroad strike. The battleship
without having trouble on board.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-29

The minstrel performance given at
Progress Hail last evening by the Ka-
kaako GIee Club was excellent The
musical numbers were exceptionally
we'll rendered and the chorus would
appear to advantage on the Opera
House stage. An enjoyable dance fol-
lowed the performance.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-29
ALICE WAS AN
OBJECT LESSON

! COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 14-By a
letter just received from Tacloban, in
the Philippines, from the Rev. c. K.
Rath Of the representatives Of the Pres
bvterian Board of Foreign Missions in
the islands, it is evident that the Fill
p:ros were disappointed in Miss Alice
Roosevelt.
.They had" said Mr.. Rath, pictured
her in a royal robe, sparkling with jew
els, a crown on her head and everything
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-29

that should go with royalty. What
they saw was a young American woman
in very plain white dress. with a
sailor hat and no display of jewelry.
4 am glad she came to us as she
did. for she could have done nothing
better to illustrate the democratic spirit
of America"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-29

needed and you may get it after
awhile
Mr.. Drier and wife will return to the
Volcano House this morning.-Hawaii
Herald.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-29
WEYLER REOIVIVUS.

MADRID October 28The cabinet has resigned Gen Weyr
is a possibility Minister of War.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-29
TO COERCE THE PORTE.

VIENNA October 29-The powers have decided to make
demonstration against the Asao ports Of Turkey
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sometimes, In crime never. Nalots on
the same side cited the prece dent Of Joseph
Wall. Governor OF Goree. who was hanged
in 1902 after twenty years, for murders
committed in his official capacity. Mr..
Paul opiues that, so far as Mill was con-
cerned, it certainly was not his desire that
Gov. Eyre should perish on the scahold,
but he thought that the honor Of the country
should he vindicated by an authoritative
exposition OF the law.
Few subjects 20 little discussed in Parlia-
ment have 10 sharply divided public opinion
in England as the conduct OF Governor
Eyre. Political leaders took the line OF
treating the report OF the roynl commits
sioners az conclusive and desired that no
more should be said about it, But neither
those who elevated Mr.. Eyre into a hero
nor those who execrated him as tyrant
were content with this middle course. The
working classes were for the most part
hostile to him and burned him in efflgy on
Cerkenwel Green. The upper and middle
classes, on the other hand, especially such
of them as we're Conservative in politics.
considered him the savior OF Jamaica
and subscribed freely to his defense. The
Jamaica committee, however preponder-
antly Liberal though not altogether
democratic body, were determined to
enforce what they believed to be the law.
Coming forward as prosecutors, they caused
Mr.. Eyre, who was living in Shropshire,
to be brought before county magistrates,
who refused to commit him. The Jamaica
committee were not discouraged by this
rebuff. Having obtained mandamus
from the Queens Bench, which had juris-
dction under the Colonial Governors act.
they brought UP Mr.. Eyre at Bow Street
in June, 1888, and at last procured his COM
initial for trial. The Grand Jury was
charged ky Mr.. Justice Blackburn. who
declared that the Crown might have power
to declare martial law in time OF peace
and that IL Governor Eyre were acting in
good faith he would not be criminally
answerable for' the removal OF the negro
Gordon from Kingston to Morant Bay. the
technical ground Of the proposed indictment.
In pursuance Of these instructions the
Grand Jury threw out the bill, but subse-
quently Lord Chief Justice Cockburn took
tho unusual coups Of protssting In open
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such PARTS a. are purely narrative are so
gross In their conception and 90 unworthy
Of the themes Of which they treat that
no amount Of allegorical Interpretation can
render them otherwise than disgusting. Z"
When he has thus cleared the ground
however. and performed the thankless task
Of fault finding, Mr.. Shorthouse shows
himself keenly alive to the glorious land
scape OF loveliness that lies before us
"What a pageant OF sublime thoughts and
aspirations fills the sight! With sweetness
and rhythm and a choice Of words which
even Tennyson himself. following care
fully and closely and with the further aid
Of two centuries Of literature. has not s,r.
passed, never, surely. were the beauties
Of this world-to our native Heaven little
inferior-sung with a nobler voice"
We would add that at the time when the
"Idylls OF q King were received with an
almost unbroken chorus OF applause Mr..
Shorthouse had the courage to point out
that there Ia about the poems a modernness
OF thought and expression which to any
one acquainted with the ago they pretend
to describe Is repulsive in the highest de-
gree. From this point Of view the 1Idylls'
are compared most unfavorably with VIII
liam Morris's Defense OF 0uinevere,'
which Is pronounced -the most wonderful
reproduction Of the tone Of thought and
feeling OF a past age that has over been
achieved"
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YArdon ON Golf.

II anybody is competent to write about
golf it should be Mr.. Harry Vardon. who
has several times been open champion Of
Great Britain and once American cham.
pion. In .The Complete Golfer (Methuen
d Co., Mcclure. Phillips Il Coz he explains
the game OF which he is master as clearly
as it can be done in words and with pic
lures. His views on all matters pertaining
to golf are put In a direct, businesslike
way that is very attractive, and the anec-
dotes which he introduces are only such a.
illustrate the points he is making. He
indulges IN autobiography and reminis.
oenoe as well. but modestly and briefly
The simplicity and direotness with which
he tells what he knows thoroughly we'll
gives style to his English. and few golfers
We imagine, can dispute the authority OF
his statements. The book Is likely to be-
come O classic in golf.
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FAMOUS OLD TAVERN FOR SALE.
suter's. Where Warrington and Jenersou
Dtned, u Up At Auction.
From ne WGshinoton I

From ne Wdshinoton Post.
will any ono give me three thousand
dollars. said Auctioneer Radcliffe. Last week.
standing in front Of slol and sios street,
old frame buildings. once. the sntiouArans
say. famous Suffers Tavern. No one would.
and the property was withdrawn.
In 1871 John Suter was mine host at the
tavern. and here Gen. Washington and Mr.
Jefferson on numerous occasions refreshed
themselves. Tradition says that Suter i'm
ported his whisky from his native Scotland.
his rum from Jamaica and his brandy from
the London docks. Thomas Jefferson. who
while Minister to France visited tho wine
countries Of Europe and made q selection for
his own cellar. is said to have declared: NO
man on the Atlantic Coast could bring out .
better bottle Of Madeira or sherry than old
Suter." The present buildings do not show
the original porch. and a story OF stuoooei
brick has been inserted under the original
house to connect It with the changed grade.
Suffers Tavern>is particularly noted. how
over, as q place where the commissioners
who laid out Washington city met frequently.
These commissioners were Thomas johnson:
the chairman. and Chief Justice Of MARYLAND
Daniel Carroll Of Duddington and brother
of Archbishop Carroll. and DR.. David Stuart.
the family physician OF the President.
Under the date OF March, 1891. Gen. WASH
ington notes in his diary: Left Bladens-
0Org az natI p0St u unu Uredklastou ~ NVo'NN
town about 8. wnerc. having appointed ths
commissioners under the residence law to
me ct me. found Mr.. Thomas johnson. one
OF them land who is now Chief Justice u' o''''
state), in waiting. and soon after came IN
David Stuart and Daniel Carroll, Fsqs. ano
others, too. few miles out OF town was
met by the citizens OF the place and. escorted
in by them. dned at Suffers Tavern. where
1 also lodged. had a public dinner given by
the Mayor and corporations. previous to whi.h 2
examined the survey OF Mr.. Ellicott who haa
been sent on to lay out the district OF ten milns
square for the Federal City, also the works
to make draft OF the grounds in the vicinity
OF Gsoreetown and Carro!lsburg. on the East
ern Branch"
Many fne dinner was served at sutsrs
Tavern, and there was many q congreEaiiih,9'nv
there OF gentlemen whose names are indenoigy
Impressed upon the history OF that day anu
whose deliberstions resulted In the hssd sresI1 to
call the Federal CITY. nov Washlngton' .ns
oapitSl Of the greatest nation on earth
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Petrarch Trauslatious.

A difficult task has been admirably per.
formed by Miss Agnes Tobin In the trans
lation Of various poems by Petrarch In
1The Flying Lesson (Williah Heinemann,
London). Petrarch is q poet more famed
than read nowadays, oven in Italy. We fancy;
a literary poet, whose skill Of execution
attracts other versifers, but whose eenti-
ment is as artificial as the love legend that
has been built about his name and LAura's
How we'll Miss Tobin has done those familiar
with the Italian original may Judge from
her version Of the famous sonnet on the
deaths Of Laura and Cardinal Colonna:
Down the white column and the laurel fall
That made shade for my perplexed soul
I may not hnd them now from pole 70 pole.
east and west winds, north and south windsi
Call
Ny double treasure! Deep beneath Deaths pail
1t Mes-no answer. Since he takes NO toll
Gems Of the east-or Eod-or emperors dole
may not see them any moro a. all.
Stoop low my once proud head-more than the
sands
In number be the scalding tears that well
In eyes that laughed. Ah mel How long ono
stands
Hoarding ones hearts bes. treasuro-till. pel
Sudden they Hash between the helpless hands
AS from Danaid sieve tho water fell.
The little volume contains only ten son.
nets. two canzoni, a ballata and doubls
sestina. The last, a pretty difficult form
Of rime. is a tour de force on the trans
lator's part. Why. however. with hum
dreds CT sonnets to pick from she should
have selected some Of the chronological
ones. we cannot understand. Perhaps she
did not appreciate their prosaicness; per-
haps she does not wish to deceive by giving
the pick of the basket. 1t Is only fair to
would-be admirers of Petrarch to quote
one of the almanac Of wo sonnets:
Sometimes near the remotest OF my dreams
como on her whose kingdom Is my brain
She has gone back to that nrst day again.
That long dead Spring around her breathcs and
teens:
Bright from its highest height my birth star
CLEANS ......
And all the glories OF the heavens rain
Upon her, till cry out In my pain: %
-Your voice! Your voice!" Oh! passing sweet u
seems
To hear her speak: but sometimes mute as Fate
She stands. until my pulses run and knock.
Until q voice says do your senses fail?
You know In thirteen hundred and forty eight.
On April Sixth at nearly one o'clock.
That blessed spirit dored It's lovely veil.
Petrarch's Italian Is doubtless morn
melodious than this. but the first part is
not more Ineligible, nor the last more
poetic than Miss Tobin has made it. The
book Is beautifully gotten up, even though
it has only % pages. and Mr.. Pritohard's
frontispieoe picture has decidedly trecento
appearance
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j. Henry Shorthox,se.

Messrs. Macmillan 4 Co. have published
in two volumes the Life and Literary Re-
mains Of J. Henry Shorthouse, who, al
though he wrote half dozen other striking
and interesting romance. Is best rsmcm-
The sun., 1905-08-20

That tsthe Government OF Lord Russell
! would introduce reform bill had been
taken for granted on all hands. The only
questions in dispute were when the bill would
be brought in and whether it would be a
big bill or a small one. On the 18th OF
I! March, 1868, Mr.. Gladstone. Chancellor Of
! the Exchequer and leader OF the House of
/, Commons, disclosed the scheme. 1t proved
fto be mild and moderate. The county
kiyanchise was to be reduced from rental
Cuoi ESQ to q rental Of ETA and the borough
SIrenchise from rental of El0 to rental Of
NET. It was computed that by these and
= other provisions the number Of electors
Il added to the constituencies would be no
more than 100000. Few persons were pre-
4 pared for the vehement and bitter ami
mosities which 30 small an expansion Of the
electorate aroused on the part Of Mr.. Lowe.
J Mr.. Horsman and other nominal supporters
kof the Government. 1t was John Bright
who compared the party OF mutineers
organized by Mr.. Lowe and Mr.. Horsman
! 60 Scotch terrier SO covered by hair that
I. he could not tell which was the head and
: which the tail. In a speech on the first
reading Of the bill he made use Of a political
metaphor which is still current. He COM
pared Mr.. Horsman, a snowy shallow per-
, son, very conspicuous at the time, with the
Hebrew chief who gathered around him in
the cave Of Adullam every one that was in
I distress and every one that was discon-
tented. The Whig malcontents were at
once chrstened Adullamites, and group
OF rebellious politicians has ever since
been known as "cave." The Conservative
: party decided to join forces with the Adult
lamities, and after a remarkable debate
!. during the last week Of April. in the course
Of which Mr.. Lowe displayed remarkable
ingenuity, vigor. fervor and eloquence, cut
down the Ministerial majority on the second
4 reading to five votes. and on June 10 carried
/ ahostile amendment by majority Of eleven.
!, thus forcing the Government Of Lord Rus
sell to resign, after an existence OF only
eight months. Mr.. Gladstone, though in
comparably the first debater in the House
Of Commons, had thus far failed in his
efforts as a leader. He was too impulsive,
/ too impctuous and, though never inten-
tionally discourteous. he did not make
sufficient allowance for the slowness of or
dinary minds. With the country, indeed,
( he was steadily growing In popularity and
( power, hut his ascendency in the House Of
Commoi.s was yet to come.
Our uuthor reproduces t,umber of
4 passages from the speeches made by Mr..
I Lowe during the debate on this Reform
bill, which he looked upon as the first step
on the downward path to that democracy
Y which more than anything else he dreaded
4 and loathed. Mr.. Paul comedies that
I snot since the days OF Burke has the fetish
worship CT oonstitutionalism been expressed
\ with such glowing wealth Of imagery and
l.such wide grasp Of philosophio principle
Ths fund3nntal dirsranos bstvscn the
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The author allots a chapter to the dis
establishment OF the Anglican Church in
Ireland by Mr.. Gladstone in 1869. We
shall not attempt to follow him through
his exposition of the subject, but merely
note few OF his admissions. He acknowl-
e!ges for instance that the dsestablish-
ment bill was incompatible with the Act Of
Union between Great Britain and Ireland.
The fifth article Of that act provided that
tho Established Churches Of the two
countries should be one United Church
OF England and Ireland. MIR. Bright de-
Tended the disestablishncnt, on the ground
that the Act OF Union, like every other act,
was one which Parliament had passed. and
which Parliament could repeal. He was
careful, however. to point out that In this
case Ireland, as we'll as England and Scot
land, was a consenting party to the change.
Mr.. Bright held, it will be remembered,
that, against the will Of the majority OF the
Irish members. the British Parliament
would have no moral right to diminish
Ire!and's representation at Westminster.
Referring to the dispute about the dis
position Of the surplus aocruing from the
disendowment OF the Anglican Church in
Ireland, MIR. Paul expresses the opinion that
the reservation OF IL for distribution by
Parliament, n concession made by the
Gladstone Government in the House Of
Lords, has had a lasting and, on the whole.
a beneficial effect upon the intellectual
aad material condition Of Ireland. Atten-
ton is also directed to the fact that -the
Disestablished Church has been more
prosperous, and also more clerical. than ever
she was before. The Church Of England has
been strengthened rather than weakened
by the severance Of an artificial bond 1t
is true, on the other hand, that the Irish
people, viewed as a whole, have not been
pacihed nor satisfied by legislation which
removed only sentimental grievances.
though, - vas unmarked at the time. q
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Court that Sir Colin Blackburn's charge
did not represent the deliberate judgment
Of his colleague. Mr.. Justice Blackburn
contented himself with accepting the sole
responsibility for his address to the Grand
Jury and the matter dropped. Mr., Eyre
was not further molested, except by civil
action for damages, which failed. But
though he lived to be an old man. he was
never again employed In the service Of the
Crown.
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mr. bancroft DANlS, ldu uOU buTuuk ITOm
including in his plea, together with much
vituperahve language. the outrageous de-
mand known a. the indirect claims. By
these it was sought to fine the people Of the
United Kingdom not merely for the depre-
dations OF the escaped cruisers, but also
for the increased rate OF insurance, the loss
OF profit by transferrence Of American car
goes to British ships and for the whole cost
Of the war after the Battle Of Gettysburg"
Mr.. Gladstone, the Prime Minister, COM
puted that II the indirect claims were
admitted the total award against England
might exceed the amount Of her national
debt. At once there arose a loud cry 70
the abrogation OF the Treaty Of Washington,
in which the British arbitrator hastened to
Join. When the arbitrators met at Geneva
on June is the British Cabinet had only
been able to agree upon a proposal to ad-
journ the meeting for eight months, which,
in our authors opinion, would have de-
stroyed the arbitration as effectively as
postponemcnt for six months destroys a
bill. He adds: THAT enormous and in
calculable disaster was averted by the
American arbitrator (Mr. Charles Francis
Adamsl, who ought to have / statue at
Westminster, as we'll as at Washington.
He suggested that the court should spon-
taneously, without protest or requirement
from either side, declare the indirect claims
to be outside the scope OF international law.
The suggestion was adopted, even tho
British arbitrator, Chief Justice Cocb.
burn, was satisfied, and the Treaty Of Wash
ington was safe. Mr.. Adams had kept
two nations from falling out.
M. W. H.
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"Morto d'Arthur.' 1t Is noteworthy that
Mr. HAorthouse differs from most other
comm q ,tators on Milton's MASTERPIECES.
in holding 1t impossible to appreciate fully
the Paradise Lost" unless the poetry is
separated from the subject Of which it
avowedly treats. Most other essayists
keep In view the story or plot contained in
the poem. It was to be expected that a
man who. like Mr.. Shorthouse, was to reveal
himself as q devotee Of the Church Of Eng
land In its sacramentd aspects, an admirer
Of Archbishop Laud and one who. had
he been a contemporary, would undoubted-
ly have been an ardent upholder OF Charles
l., would find 1t almost impossible to
speak Of the story or plot OF the Paradise
Lost without blame. He is willing to ex-
onerate Milton. taking into consideration
his peculiar training and the age In which
he lived. Of any irreverent intentions, but
1t must, he thinks, be acknowledged that
"the subject Of the poem, involving. as it
doea, tho consideration OF those questions
before whose stupendous difficulty the
human intellect, even when assisted by
revelation, has ever quailed, and toward
whose solution 1t has never been able to ad-
vance one step-the origin Of evil, free will,
the divine attributes Of infinite power
and mercy, considered In connection with q
creation full Of MISERY'S, to ssy the least
Of II, unsuitable, especially as these over
whclming themes are considered, not
solemnly and soberiy, in the light OF reason
and Of prayer, but POLITICALLY in that Of dim
tradition, and through an antique atmos-
phere OF pagan and medieval mythos.-
Mr.. Shorthouse goes 40 far as to assert
That 70 "a ara n aepa rafa the feaud iea ~
Paradise Lost from the dross in which
they are enclosed .we can only read parts
Of It st all, or at kest with edihcation, for
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ment, which made through Secretary
Seward the preposterous dsmand that
British recognition Of the Southern States
as belligerents should also be treated as
an article OF charge" Our author deems
IL -astounding that such pretension should
have been seriously put forward. not,
indeed, by Mr.. johnson, the worst of Ameri-
can Presidents. but by statesman of
Mr.. Stewards repute. for the belligerency
Of the Confederate States was fact which
had been recognized by the United State.
Supreme Court at Washington, aud upon
it depended the Federal righ. Of blookad-
ing the Southern ports, which inflicted upon
the cotton trade Of Lancashire loss far
exceeding what the most exuberant fancy
could ascribe to the depredations Of the
Alabama" Mr.. Paul believes that lord
StaLley's treatment Of this difficult question
contributed materially to its ultimate set
tlement at the hands Of others.
Lord Clarendon, who on the return OF the
Liberals to power in 1883 had again become
Secretary for Foreign Afra;ss took up in
January 1889, the negotiations with the
United States which Lord Stanley had
dropped, and concluded with Mr.. Reverdy
johnson, the American Minister at the Court
OF st. Jamcss. a treaty submitting all the
differences between the two countries to
arbitration. In our authors opinion the
British rather than American interests
Nevertheless 1t was almost unanimously
rejected by the United States Senate
Charles Sumner having denounced In that
body the idea Of arbitration - injurious