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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-27
MONDAY, APRIL 2,
AT 8 O'CLOCK, WE
WILL BEGIN A %
G|Q||d c|e0|QDCe Sole
WOODEN GOODS

We must close out our last seasons
stock to make room for new goods
now arriving. Hence these prices:
LOT Checked Zibeline, mixed coll
OfS. FORMER
price, 60c., sale price, 121ac yard.
LOT 2-Plain and figured Challies,
Tricot, Alpacas, Scotch FIannels
and Melrose .................Fo Former
price, 75c. and 81, sale price, 25c. yard
LOT 3-Plain and colored Stripe
Coo. and 75c., sale price 4Oc. yard
LOT 4-Skirtings of fancy Mokair,
Cashmeres, Bengalines, Venetians,
Silk and Wool Crepe, Scotch
Plaids. ...................F Former
price, 75c. to $100, sale price, soc. yard
LOT silk Stripe Scotch Flannel,
Bedford Cord. French Flannel
Powered Challies and Striped
Tricot. Former price,
75c. and S5c.. sale price, soc. yard
LOT 6-Double width Melrose, Serge
and fancy Mohair. -. Former price,
SIC. and s1.00, sale price Coo. yard
LOT Fancy Bedford Cord Waist
ings and Satin Stripe Challies
Former price, 81. sale price csc. yard
LOT 8-Extra width blue and gray
Suitings. ........ Former price.
$780, sale price, 75c. and 81 yard
LOT 9-Black Silk and Wool Crepon.
lightweight. Former
price, $3.50 sale price, $3.50 yard
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-27
HONOLULU a. 1906


for all European profession
time months that all beligerent
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-27
MONDAY EVENING SOCIAL

The first of the Y. NJ. c. A. Monday
evening socials was held last night
Mrs. Ewing took charge of the piano
and her music was greatly enjoyed
by ALL Mr.. John NJ. Martin gave sew
eral selections on his monograph and
amused the audience with a speech
Later on all gathered around the piano
and sang college songs until 10 o'clock
Several of the British seamen We're
present and their singing was very
hearty and pleasing. Next Thursday
evening the hall will be thrown open
to the men on the warships in port.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-27

Formal charges, accusing misconduct
IN office, have been fled against City
and County Auditor Horton, San Fran
cisco.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21

IT'S the week before Christmas, and all
through the place
Each woman goes shopping. with worn,
And held in her hand is a long, fearsome
list
OF names that could simply by no means
be missed
So shopping, and shopping. and shopping
Bumped, showed, pushed, and tangled in
squad and in row.
This the week before Christmas, and father
Though mother and sisters are all of them
glad.
Poor father reflects on the state of his
And OFoods on expenses that tell on hi
But Once in the year come the glad Christ.
mas Day
The rest of the years for poor father to
pay.
It's the week before Christmas-and now
the coy girl
Puts on her glad garments, adjusts her
And sends for the lover with whom she has
fused, vas
To tell him she knows he's h one she
And heMhe forgives her. The gas Is turned
you know.
through the home ~
rDs children are watched as they aimless-
And when they approach any wardrobe
They are told they must stop-and Oh.
And o. the sweet chIIdseni So faith.
are they at"
At Sunday schOol-ssnta will come Christ.
mas Day. NnfisI-
It's the week before Christmas m. N
through the land ""u All
Each poet is toiling with pen In his ho,,
AT WORK on the parody based on AZ
1het somebody jingled out once on a time
but where Is the prophet who wisbas =
sing WV "shes TO
The row that the week after Ch.,
will bring? ShFls1mas
W D. Nesbtt, in Chicago Tribune.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21

cling TO a happy myth or destroy your
boys faith in Santa Claus, and, incident
ally in a good many other things he be-
lieves In. but doesn't understand?
why discuss the matter at allT' Is a
natural question. Because 1t is a ques-
ton that always arises at Christmas time.
An Eastern preacher is discussing 1t from
the pulpit and holds that deceit Is sin and
that the truth and only the truth Is the
best steady diet for both young and old.
The man or woman who would take
from a child his sublime faith in a Mys-
terious Being, who rewards all the good
children and skips the bad ones on his
annual tour of countless chimneys, has a
shriveled heart. We want more happi-
ness not less. We need more good influ-
enees in the lives of our children, not
fewer. Nothing but good ever came from
the Santa Claus Myth. He is a glorious
ghost, a delicious impossibility, Is this
friend Of the children. He teaches kind
ness, charity, goodness. He inspires and
encourages. He brightens the lives Of
millions of little ones with the joy of an
tieipation and the gladness of receiving.
He Is a companion of brownies and elves
and fairies, and flowers that speak.
When we abolish Merry Old st. Nick
lets burn all the story books, the fairy
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21
CHRISTMAS IN DIXIE.
A Quaint Custom IA SuFTiVai -
Slavery Days.

ou.tnt Custom the 81
Slavery Days.
In some parts of the South, nooaOiJ
Alabama. the observance of Christmas is
ke,t nm after the manner of slavery days
Two weeks before the festival ora"hJ
oolored men In the employ of the plante
tlon owner search out a timber TRACK leii
the tree of greatest size, cut on the trunA
,rb.re the circumference Is greatest Dig
enough to admit of 1t filling the space Oh
he open hearth, fasten heavy chains 10 II
nv driving in spikes, haul It to the near
est river or pond, sink 1t and anchor II
ali halov the surface. On Christmas eve
II Il drawn up, taken to the owners man
sion and in the presence Of his family
relatives and friends the dripping log Is
nlaced on a roaring fire in the hearth IL
raAuce the water-soaked wood to ashes
Ia a slow process and sometimes a week
ola nsAs before this Is accomplished. N
the meantime the plantation darkies DO
nor work while the incineratiOn Is in pro
gress. On Christmas eve the hostess
serves the company with eggnog and she
supplies them with eatables while the log
s~izzles In the fire place. The banjo and
0uitar are brought into play and the old
melodies are sum and jigs and other
dances are gone through with zest. The
white folks take a hand in the fun max
ing, too, and with song and story make
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21
Strange Origin of Chri.tmas Tree

StranGe Origin OF Christmas Tree.
Most Of us know that the Christmas
tree comes to us direct from Germany.
And we know Of the tree worship of the
Druids which obtained In England and
France, and which probably had some in
fiuence on the later use of the tree in the
Christian festival. But We do not all
NOW that a similar festival with the tree
as a crowning feature Is observed among
many heather nations, and that it comes
from sun worship, which is older than his
tory. The revival of the sun after the
winter ~solstice has ever been the subject
of rejoicing and of celebration By cere-
monies which represent the new light
brought back to the world. Our tree.
with it's small candles, its gilded knick-
nacks and toys for the children, is a d.
rect descendant of this old festival in
honor of the sun.
Traces of It exist In Iceland, where the
service tree" is found adorned with burn
ing lights during Christmas night. The
English yule log Is a faint survival of this
festival. But it is beyond these that |
wish to draw your attention, back further
even than the Druid mysteries of the Gal
lie forests. II is to China, that home of
all wonders and of all history. 1t has
been shown that as long ago as PAT B.. G.
a tree with a hundred lamps and flowers
was placed on the steps Of the audience
hall. This appears again in the records
Of Princess Yang, who lived 1855 A.
D. and who caused a hundred-iamD tree
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21

heart and cried out, Il will be father and
mother both to yOu my baby, my poor
fOrsaken baby"
As he bent over her now, all his heart
in his eyes. a strange feeling Of doubt be
gan tugging At her heart. Had ne really
loved the child like this? Uncomfortable
regrets took possession Of her. Could she
have misjudged himf She might have sent
Beth to see him occasionally, 1t seemed
10 her now, when she had her all the
time. He had been more generous than
she.
She glanced furtively at him. He rest
ed his head on his right hand, his left
c~lasping Beth's. His eyes we're liked on
the child az II he would In these few mo
ments left feast his famished heart upon
that which had been 80 long withheld.
Something in his position made Margaret
think OF one other night when they had
sat like this and watched Beth through
thu Group, and how they had felt that II
God would only spare her they could
nave nothing In life to trouble them again.
How gentle and tender John had been
that night!
And then there waS the time that Beth
vas UuAuCu Adu ooua AHA HuAhNN 49,
her the whole night long and would not
even let the mother rest him, because "she
was weak and be was strong" he had
said. How the memories came ~thrOnging
upon herl Oh, II she could only wake
and find that this year had been a dream
"A horrible dream-and there had been
no quarrel!
The clock licked on, the fire sputtered
ftfully, but the silence of the vigil was
unbroken. John Thorne raised his head
and looked at Margaret as she lay with
closed eyes. Her white, suffering face
touched his heart. How much older she
looked. II was only four years since she
had stood a bride Of nineteen and given
herself to him. Why, could 1t be only
four yearsf 1t seemed like an eternity.
The breath comes slowly. The little
hands are very still, and yet, o baby
fingers, through the solemn watches Of
this night, thOu'rt gathering up the tan
gled. broken threads OF these two lives,
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21

o,.b+v feet high TO be erected on a
tsjn 1t wss Lighted during New Aears
night. and the illumination was seen TOT
Lrndrsds of miles, eclipslng the light Oh
.ba moon. This candle tree is no longer
i;.btsd in China, being replaced by an
r9rsual number of lanterns when arg
hung everywhere. A suggestion OF tns
49, however, still survives in Japan Az
-. Vaw Year two evergreen trees are
DIscad without, on either side of the door'
T,sir tons are tied together with the
sacred band Of straw, and various ooJects'
dried Holsters and oranges are tastenea "
their branches.-Woman's Home Com-
,ant0n
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21

and with a touch no other hand might
use, art weaving them together, deity
surely, with he~aven-sent SKILL
There was a slight stir. The mother
and father felt q CULVER pass through the
little form. With startled faces they bent
over her. There was a gasp, a sudden
throwing up Of rhs little hands-then all
was still.
In an instant his arms were around her,
her head on his breast
Margaret, my wife"
20 John, John y she said.
The clock struck twelve. A New Year
had dAwnsd.
In the twilight Of a summer day a mar
and woman stand beside a little grave.
There is an air Of subdued sadness about
them that tells to whom the little mound
belongs, and yet when they speak 1t Is
hopefully and cheerfully. 1t Is a tiny
Erave-"only a baby" a stranger would
say-but We who have stood beside such
know that love and grief are nOt measured
by feet and inches.
The glory of the setting sun hlls the
place. IL lights up the faces of father
and mother as they lay, with loving
hands. fOrget-me-nOts upon the green turf
and then, hand In hand, go forth. A stray
sunbeam falls across the white stone. We
stoop to read the inscription. Il Is a very
simple ons:
BABY BETH.
AGED THREE
And q little child shall lead them"
The Housewife.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21
Plum PUDDING

One pound of grated bread. ons and
d quarter pounds of grated suet ona
pound of r~aisins. one pound of browD
sugar, twelve eggs, well beaten. 80
wineglassfuls of brandy, -one-oportoo
pound of citron, cut fine. Mir ali So
the night before. In the mo-Dina -
fore putting 1t in the cloth stir t5Fo -
olespoonfuls Of wheat -four. heat ~.
cloth and sprinkle with -four. Tie tight-
y ana Doh -FOUR hours. Put a plate turn
60 on the under part in the pot under
II liked. nutmeg
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21

There's going to be a railroad up In Ice
land
And what a funny railroad II VIII be!
I would never think Of Iceland as a ntos
A nice land.
For week ends at a cottage By the sea
For the trains will very likely go % ruA'
ners like a sleigh,
And they'll harness up the engine IN 9
Jingle bells array.
At least, l can't imagine It In any 0ther
In Iceland,
You won't need your thermometer In Ice
land,
In Iceland.
Add you won't have any fretful Wis a Wis
For up there In that anything but Spios
But spice land.
The cars are always cold as they can be.
Oh, they'll have 20 dig the sleepers out q
dozen times a cay,
Or perhaps they'll tunnel through the great
big icebergs in the bay,
And that will be just bully till tne SSs-
bergs move away,
In Iceland,
A Journey will be jolly up in Iceland,
In Iceland,
The scenery's so wonderful 70 see
II will seem like nothing short Of para
disc land.
Paradise land,
As the open cars go wbirling DER the lea.
They won't have any schedule SO therou
never be delay,
For In that curious climate Il IL Christmas
every day,
In Iceland.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21

Mr.. Billings settled himself eOmtorta'
hIv IN bis favorite chair beside the stove
In the grocery store, and returned the
neiEhborly greetings Of the other regular
attendants.
Yes" he said, meditativeiy, ~thS is
the last night Of the old year. Somethin'
kind o. solemn bout it, too, when ye stop
to think Of 1t. A year past an gone,
an a new one-mebbe the last some OF
usIl ever see-just beginnin'. y makes
a nan feel serious. People laugh bout
New Years resolutions, but l maintain
tia a rood thing for a man to pun up
now an then an start fresh an the hrst
of the year seems the most natural an
httin' time to do It,"
Maxim any resolutions yourself LII
shaY asked Nathan Hobbs, good-natur-
eddy.
Eyes, sir, l am % replied Elisha, def
antly. "I'm maxim one, anyway, an l
don't care who knows 1t. I'm resolvin to
keep a better holt on my temper this
year. He that ruleth his spirit Is better
than he that taketh a city, the Book says.
I've had my failin's that way, as some OF
ye know but now we're b~eginnin' a new
year an a new century, too, I'm goin' to
turn over a new leaf"
''Wha was that you said bout a new
century," asked old Eben Cook, from his
seat In the corner.
II said now that we was beginnln' a
new century l was goin'@"
"What you talkin' about, Lisha2 The
twentieth century began a year ago. To
morrow'll be nineteen hundred an one,
won't it?"
Course twill but amt one the first
number there Is? An don't that make to-
morrow the first day of the new century, 2
mot by a long shot. less I've forgotten
how to count. 1t don't take a hundred
an one years to make a century, does itr''
mo, but it takes more'n ninety-nine:
S'pose 1 was to begin with one, an
count"
Hold on a minute" i~nterposed Judson,
the storekeeper. Lets say that Bill,
here, owed me a hundred dollars an start
ed to pay me in dollar bills, calm out
one two 'three'-"
We'll s'pose he did" D."
"No, Jud," suggested Seth Gibson.
Here's the way l heard that Teller up to
the academy put it How old. is a man
on his one-hundredth birthday
Good land and seas p shouted Mr.. Bill
lings, as he rose excitedly to his feet. "If
he didn't know any more'n this election
of hands picked ~lunkheads he wouldn't
pass for more'n six or seven, at most. It's
a waste O. breath talkin' to We. My oil
sorrel mares got more sense than the
xfyhOlo naouaI Of 10 ~ Al ~ 1870 s.
the door! rt ','.S .'t
What was It 'Lisha was sayin' bout
New Years r~es'lutionsT' Mcpherson ask
ed the s~torekeeper, as the door shut with
a bang. Bot Judson was too. intent on
his argument with Gibson to reply
Youths Companion.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21
CLAIMS cHINA's THRONE.
Manchu Banner Woman in Vic'0''4
Petitions.

Victoria, B. c., Dec. ia VlctO."
woman, a Manchu banner woman ma, :.
ried to an Englisman who was an -
ficer of Gordon's army, when Tp wy.
pressed the TAPPING rebellion,
made claim to the throne OF O rl,c
The lady, unwilling to make pun L
her name. lest relatives be assao
mated at Pekin, has addressed peI' 1T
to the British government asking "
her claim be taken up with China
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21
LET'S KEEP SANTA CLAUS.
Memory of Happy Days of Long Ago
Profects ST. Nick.

He memory of
happy days long
ago should ever
protect S
Claus. When your
boy looks you
squarely In the
EYE and says:
Papa. Clarence
McGufy d
there isn't any
Santa Claus and
/ punched him,
for l know there
Is" what are you
going to dor For
rive the blow and
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21
CARTONS Custom Of O1sord.h,-..

In some places in Oxfordshire, Eng
land. 1t was the right of every maid ser
want to ask the hired man for a bit Of
ivy to trim the house. II he turned a
deaf ear to her opportunities or forgot
her request she would steal a pair of his
breaches and nail them to the gate In the
yard or on The highway. This was sup-
posed to debar him from all privileges Of
the mistletoe.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21

tales, and all the make-believes that WELD
an influence for good in the lives of chill
dren. But Santa Claus Is In no danger,
for II the children love him, 30 do the
parents. Memory of happy days of long
ago protects him. A century hence he
viii be making his rounds and laughing,
with the children, at those who would de-
stroy him.-Cfncinnati Post.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21
Easy to Be Happy.

Mrs. Nexdoor-Aren't you always
worried half to death when 1t comes to
buying a Christmas present for your
husbandf
Mrs. Sunshine-Mr, no! l buy nv
husband something l want for myself.
and he buys me something be wants for
himself, and then we trade.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21
That Costly Season

t~o-niC'tg" OOA 50 Olue
-sh! Somebody thousb,Iass,v
mehtioned the fact that Christpnss il com,
ing."-Chicago Post. e'm-
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21
Tommy Got one.

Tommy Con Christmas morning)-
Where does Santa Claus get all his stuff,
mammal
Msmma-Oh, he buys It.
Tommy-Well, he must be a Jay to let
anyone palm of a tin watch on him =
Town TopicA
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21
Liked the old w.

Pa, I've wrote Sanity Claus a 'notbs,
What about, Georgie7"
tole him ne mustn't come IN q srto.
mobile; | want him to come in q slaioh :.
Detroit Free Press S'eish'
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21

the colored folks happy. At SOM of these
gatherings 300 persons take part, the old,
~capacious mansion giving ample room for
all.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21
Woman Perishes in Vermont Fire.

Burlington, VT, Dec. 17.-Mrs. FRA! ~
Conrad is believed to have been III a..
and porperty valued at S5O'oVV, .be
stroyed by a fire which consumer
American House block and badly dam
aged two adjoining blocks today
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21
Little Baby Beth
by Caroline II. stanley.

@'G2EESFi&GGH1
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21

L T was New Years eve. Downstairs
in the parlor was Baby Beth's
l. Christmas tree, just as 1t had been
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-11
Cholera In The Philippines.

MANILA, July 3.-Cho!era of a vir.
ulent type has broken on, among the
natives Of Manila and surrounding
provinces. Four Americans in Ma.
Mia have been stricken near Il death,
and there has been one death of an
American, that of Charles Sheehau.
Twenty one cases and III deaths we're
reported today. The provinces report
26 cases and % deaths. The disease
is of a most deadly type.
The suburbs near Fort Mckinley
have been ~quarantined. There has
been one death from cholera among
the soldiers, that of a cook, Christian
G. bright, of Company c.. Sixteenth
infantry. The health bureau il taking
every precaution t o prevent the spread
of the disease.
4. circular has been buted
among citizens, warning them Of the
danger, and requiring that precau.
tions be taken. While the situation
is serious, the health officials Go not
look for an epidemic OF great pro.
portions.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-11
beet Growers May strike.

FORT COLLINS, Colo, July 3-Cn.
less the Great Western Sugar com.
pany recedes from its position taken
some time ago to pay the farmers Of
northern Colorado on a sliding scale
for their sugar beets. there will be no
sugar beets grown ia this district next
summer. and the factories of northern
Colorado will close.
At q meeting OF the beet growers of
northern Colorado. held in this city
today, a resolution was unanimously
adopted to the effect that unless the
Great Western Sugar company agrees
to pay a fiat rate of 6 per ton, and
also agrees to discontinue the practice
of SLIDING, the farmers would not grow
any more sugar beets. At the present
time the farmers are paid on a sliding
scale. running from $3.50 to o per
ton, according to the per CEN of sugar
in the beets. After being covered
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-11
Will Investigate Steel Trust.

WASHINGTON, July l.-Over.capi.
taliz alton is to be one Of the next-per-
haps the acknowledgements"
problems to be forced to the front.
The steel combination, presenting, as
it does, the most startling Ease of
stock.watering and value imitation, is
to be the initial point Of attack.
After it, if the attack on its methods
a success, will come other huge
and water.logged combinations and
the great transportation corporations.
It is announced that the Garfield in.
quiry into the Standard Oil and its
methods is to be made the model on
which an investigation OF the steel
trust will be organized. The steel
combine has been selected, it is ex.
planned, because in its case were mos,
strikingly illustrated the possibilities
of using the multiplication table as q
means to making money. It would be
hard to tell without a detailed inquiry
how much Morgan added to the CAPT.
talization of the steel business wher
he framed his trust.
Nobody has yer placed above $500,
OOO, 600 the nominal value placed or
the group Of steel properties which
Morgan consolidated and capitalized
at about 81. 200, 0OO, 600. And it is no.
torious that before the magic of Nor
gan injected these new millions the
properties had already been wa:ered
and rewatered almost beyond belief.