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THE PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER: HONOLULU, SEPTEMBER 8, 1896.
JORDAN'S
We Buy
To Suit
Your Taste.
JUST RECEIVED:
(Ex " Australia")
PILLOW SHAMS,
CUSHION COVERS,
BUREAU SCARFS,
3PLASHERS, ETC.
NOVELTIES IN
STAMPED GOODS.
Novelty out) Feather-stitched Braid.
E. W. JORDAN
FO BT
STREET
If You Have
Not bought a Bed Room
Suite for $27 get in and
buy one of our
Folding
Beds.
Artistic in design, beauti
ful in finish, and the most
compact and elegant piece of
furniture to be put in the
home. Several designs to
pick from.
Nobody else sells them as
Cheap as we do!
If you wish a piece of fur
niture for the Parlor or
Library, get a
Ladies' : Writing : Desk
Hard .Wood,
Elegant Design,
Beautiful Finish.
HOPP & CO
KINii AND BETHEL STS.
HENRY DAVIS.
320 Fort St., cor. Fort and Merchant
Streets, Honolulu.
MERCHANDISE BROKER.
COMMISSION AGENT,
CUSTOM HOUSE BROKER
AND STATISTICIAN.
Expert Accountant and General Busi
ness Agent.
DAVID K. BAKER.
V I IOL Above the M n u r oleum
All orders given prompt and faithful
attention. No extra charge for deliver
ing flowers to any part of the city.
Leis. Mountain Greens and Carnations
a specialty.
425S-V TELEPHONE 747
FERNANDES & ROZA.
CONTRACTORS and BUILDERS.
Carpentering in all its branches.
All work guaranteed and promptly
attended to. Orders can be left with
J. M. Camara, Jr. Tel. 991.
Nothing Inferior in Qualify
Nomina in pm !
MAMS, .DIMOND
ON SUGAR MARKETS
(Continued from First Page.)
Oars: Fair ST 1-2 ft 9vc: Choice
6 tl.00 per ctl. f. o. b.
1-2
Wheat: Chicken 9i
ctl. f. o. b.
ft 97 l-2c per
Corn :
o. b.
Hay :
S. Y. 95 (j 97 l-2c per ctl. f.
Wheat Comp. S10.50 g 11 per
ton f. o.
Comp. 8.
o. b.
b. Large bales same. Oat
Large bales $9 per ton f.
Lime:
90c a $1 per bbl. f. o. b.
Freights: We have to report some
improvement during the month, and
early in the week charters were drawn
at 28s net for spot. U. K.. Havre. An
twerp or Dunkirk for handy size, and
27s ;d net for large size. Another
steamer was also chartered for Wheat
loading. September cancelling, at 27s
6d one port. 28s 9d two ports, making
nine 9) steamers so far engaged for
this business, four 4i already here
and five (5) to arrive, capacity of all
about 4000 tons which has proved a
very disturbing element in this busi
ness. Later, European advices being
weaker, charterers having supplied
their wants, the market reacted a little,
and we quote today for spot tonnage.
27s 6d net to 27s 6d, 1-3 less direct, ac
cording, to size. October-November
canceling, 20s 3d to 26s 9d. Nothing
doing at Portland or Tacoma.
We quote lumber freights. Puget
Sound to Sydney, 80s: Port Pirie, Ade
laide. Melbourne. 37s 6d; Shanghai.
40s; West Coast Valparaiso for orders.
35s; U. K. for orders, 60s: South Africa,
o5s.
Exchange on London 60 days 4. 82.
Sight 4.83 1-2. New York regular 10c
30c discount. New fork Telegraph
ic 10c ft 30c discount.
WILLIAMS. DIMOND & CO.
GOT GOOD WATER.
What Mr. Buckner Iid For Unfor
tunate Natives.
One Form of Practical .Missionary Work Tun
nelled and Refreshing Floods
Burst Forth.
A venerable looking old gentleman,
with a wife leaning on his arm, trod
the decks of the brig Galilee as she lay
at anchor in Mission bay last evening.
He was the Rev. W. G. Buckner, who
had just returned from two years' mis
sionary service in Pitcairn Island, says
the San Francisco Chronicle of August
23d. Pitcairn Island is a small speck
on the Pacific ocean, about a mile and
a half in diameter and containing
about 135 inhabitants, all told. Not a
wide field for missionary effort: yet
Mr. Buckner is well satisfied with the
result of his efforts. His principal
achievement was in furnishing the na
tives with an abundance of clear, cold,
healthful water.
Previous to his visit the people of the
island were compelled to drink warm
and stagnant rain water, months old at
some seasons of the year. The stuff
had quenched their thirst through so
many generations that they had be
come accustomed to regard it as re
freshing. It was not until Mr. Buck
ner arrived and. Moses like, struck a
rock from which a flood gushed out,
that they knew what good water really
was.
Mr. Buckner formerly conducted the
Seventh-Dav Adventist Church of
Stockton, and was sent down to the
Island by the Oakland Adventists. On
the outward trip two years ago he was
very sick. Arriving at Pitcairn. his
first request was for a glass of fresh
water. He had become so tired of the
ship's stale drink that he could hardly
swallow it. and on the last few days
of the voyage had been kept alive by
the hope that on reaching land he
would have a chance to get a cool,
fresh drink. What was his horror
when the natives hastened to him with
a cup of the nastiest stuff he had ever
tasted.
"Rain water is bad enough.-' said Mr.
Buckner. relating his experience, "but
this was old rainwater. Probably it
was three months old. and originally it
had been collected from a thahed
roof. 1 would rather have drank fair
water with a heavy charge of lobelia
in it than the stuff they poured into me.
Immediately I grew stronger I began
to explore the little mountainous island
to try to discover a spring, but my
search was unavailing. The natives ex
plained to me that there was a wet
.spring up on the side of the mountain,
which ran only in the rainy season,
but in the dry season they had only
the water they stored in casks filled
from their roofs when it was raining.
Later, however. I became somewhat
acquainted with the traditions of the
island.
"An old native one day in conversa
tion told me that years and years ago
the people of the island were supplied
with the best of water by a stream that
came out of the hillside, but which had
beeen filled up by a landslide. I got him
to tell me all he knew about the loca
tion of the stream, thinking if it ran
there once it must be still running.
One day with a party of natives I be
gan tunneling into the side of the
mountain at a point indicated by the
old sage, and after going only about
twenty feet, to my profound surprise
and gratification a great volume of the
clearest, coldest water you ever drank
shot forth with great force. The stream
has every evidence of being perpetual.
The land slide had so packed the earth
in about its old mouth that it had been
compelled to change its. course.
"I sent to Oakland here for more
pipes, and ire confined the water and
led it down into the little town. Now
the people are healthier and happier
than they have been for years and
years."
The people of Pitcairn Island. Mr.
Buckner asserts, are the best he ever
met. They are spiritually minded, and
the students in the Adventist boarding
school recently built to accommodate
forty are making excellent progress.
The Galilee was forty days coming
up from the city oi Papeete. Tahiti.
The length of the trip was principally
cue to calms and light winds. The brig
experienced no rough weather. Cap
tain Dinamore sighted the Hawaiian
Commercial Company's brig Lurline on
August 3d in latitude 26 deg. 20 min.
north. longitude 154 deg 50 min. west.
She reported light winds.
MARKETING HUMAN FLESH.
The plain of Ubangi, now the bone
of contention between France and the
Kongo State, is the home of confirmed
cannibals, who eat no meat excepting
that of man. They will not eat beef
or veal, but human flesh, seasoned with
salt and pepper, is their greatest del
icacy, and as often as they can afford
it they purchase slaves of almost any
age and sex. According to recent in
formation, the French missionary,
Allaire, succeeded not long ago in res
cuing 74 young slaves from these can
nibals, anl escaped with them aboard
the steamer Lion to the orphanage of
the mission house. Allaire found these
slaves exhibited in one of the markets
like cattle. He stated that these hu
man being were not only sold as a
whole, but even in parts. If anybody
had not money enough to buy an entire
slave he would choose a portion, say
an arm or leg, the seller marking the
piece sold off with white chalk. The
next comer would buy another part of
the same unfortunate slave, and so on
until the entire body was sold. When
the head was cut off the purchasers
received the portion marked down for
them upon the spot. The custom is
popular through the entire district, and
Allaire estimates that annually at least
25,000 human beings are disposed of in
this way. Ex.
Special English Traits.
The intellectual specialty of the Eng
lish, as we should contend, is their im
patience of abstract ideas, their inabili
ty to believe that because an idea is
sound they are. therefore, bound, even
when it is inconvenient, to push it to
its logical result. They insist on self
government, but are quite content to
tolerate monarchy and aristocracy. They
hold to religious liberty as a dogma,
but tax all landlords indifferently to
Bnpport an established church. They
believe in the equality of citizens and
tolerate the most astounding differences
in the amount of voting power which
is assigned to each, so that a Londoner
has scarcely a third of the power to in
fluence laws possessed by an Arcadian
or man of Kilkenny.
They swear by the franchise as the
sheet anchor of liberty, but do not fret,
if they get liberty, because the fran
chise is a restricted one. Every man
with US is in the national ideal "free
to sav the thins he will," but when he
has said it he coin a under very strict
laws, indeed, intended to provide that
what is said shall not bo libelous or
blasphemous or improper. Colonel Iu
gersoll, the American apostle of disbe
lief, would cn this side of the water
have passed half his life in prison.
London Spectator.
Paul KeT'8 Tower.
It is saddening for the patriotic tour
ist after he has gaz d with reverence at
the towers of old Christ church to be
told that he is not seeing the ordinal
windows from which Paul Revere nnng
out his lanterns, but a copy, the real
tower having I e n blown down in the
great gale oi 1804. However, there are
plenty of genuine relics inside where
the vast majority of Btton never goes.
There are still the old deep window
seats, the balcony surrounding the
church, with its supporting pillars and
upper arches; the top "Slaves' gallery,"
and the antique pews. The bottom of
the ancient pulpit of hourglass shape is
left us, but the tt p was given away by
the church officials in 1S20. The clock
under the rail has told of the flight of
the man with the scythe for 150 years;
the "Yin srar Bible," prayer books, and
silver communion s rvice bearing the
royal arms weie gifts from King George
IIinl73.'l; the huge christening basin
came from a parishioner in 1730. The
marble bust of Washington against the
wall was the earliest memorial erected
to the Father of His Country, having
been placed in position but ten years
after his death. Loston Traveller.
The JUarget Lecribed Snake.
Speke, in his narrative of the journey
to the sonrce of the Nile, describes the
largest snake that has ever been seen
by man. "I shuddered, " he says, "as I
looked upon the effect of his tremendous
dy ing sm ngth. For yards around where
ho lay irvs, bushes and saplings in
fa everything ex pt full grown trees
were exit clean off, as if they had bun
trimmed with an immense scythe. The
monster, when measured, v. as 51 it or
2 inches in exwme length, while
around the thicl si rtioi of its body
the girth u a: iy 3 feet. "
A World Out of Joint.
A poor devil t. lis his latest misadven
ture: "I had had nothing to at f r two
days. In despair I threw myself into
the Seine. A sailor fishes me out. Well,
tin y gave $5 to my rescuer and nothing
to me. Figaro.
Men are often capable of greater
things than they perform. They are
sent into the world With i ails of credit
and seldom draw to their full extent.
Walpole.
The brain of woman is absolutely
smaller than that ol man, but is prated
to bo somewhat larger in proportion to
the weight of the body.
W. W. DIMOND.
By the Transit which ar
rived on the 4th inst., we
received 100 Jewel stoves
and ranges (one large car
load) direct from the factory
at Detroit.
This is our third shipment.
and we find that we have ;
only 4 stoves left from our
previous lot.
The excellence of these
stoves has already been
proved by the large sale, but
we will name three points:
First. Long life from the
heavy high grade of iron
which is the same in the $12
stove as in the $50 range.
Second. Economy in the
use of fuel.
Third. Quick and even
bakers.
We propose leasing these
stoves on the following
terms:
When the stove is deliver
ed one-third of the price is
paid in cash, and the balance;
monthly thereafter in five
equal payments.
If before the expiration of
the five months, the lessee
wishes to pay off the balance,
he will be entitled to a dis
count of five per cent, on the
amount unpaid.
If a customer wants to buy
outright, he gets five per
cent, discount on the whole
amount.
Jewel stoves and ranges
can be had only of us.
Von Holt Block.
Murata & Co.
Use a Pocket Stove,
or Japanese KAIR0!
A BOON TO INVALIDS!
A SUbSti'nt? for the o'd Style Mustard
P aster and Hot Water Bottles. Applied
easily.
MORATA & CO.
Corner Hotel and Nuuanu
Streets.
Refrigerated Poultry
-AND-
Fresh Salmon
CONSTANTLY ON HAND.
Metropolitan Meat Company
Telephone 45.
"HALF AND HALF"
IS A GREAT APPETIZER
Makes the weak stout and purifies the
blood.
Sold at the Empire Saloon.
Two for 25 cents.
S. KIMURA,
-WHOLESALE DEALER IN
Japanese Wines, Liquors
AND PROVISIONS.
Sakl a specialty.
A.LLLEN ST., Telephone 704.
The HAWAIIAN GAZETTE (semi
weekly) is issued on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Japanese mm
i h Ms-
Art Goods.
The demand for colors, both
water and oil is the surest in
dication of a refined taste among
the ladies of the Islands. We
are in a position to supply the
demand'
A full supply of colors,
brushes, oils, varnish and can
vas always on hand.!
Picture framing, satisfactory
picture framing, is due largely
to the taste displayed in the
selection of mouldings that
will harmonize with the pic
ture. We have the taste and
mouldings. Let us give you a
suggestion.
King Bros.,
HOTEL STREET.
JAPANESE
EHPORIUM.
7 ' ,1VI
WE HAVE MOVED
From our King-street store
to palatial ".quarters in the
WAVERLY BLOCK.
Hotel Street.
Silk and Porcelain Goods of every des
cription, as well as a large assortment of
Japanese Dry Goods.
N.B. Come and see us.
HOWARD & TRAIN.
Architects.
PATENT AND MECHANICAL
DRAUGHTING.
Office Fort street, over Bruce War
ing & Co.
Plans, specifications and details pre
pared and construction of buildings
superintended.
Jewelry.
My stock of Jewelry, Diamonds,
Watches, Clocks, Ornaments, etc.,
is complete.
Mils 01 i lis Mode
Latest Novelties in
Sterling Silverware
Native Jewelry made in unique tie
signs. E. A. JACOBSON,
FORT STREET.
(Wenner's Old Stand.)
CLAU8 SPRBCKELS.
WM. G. Irwis.
CLAUS SPRECKELS & CO.,
Bankers,
HONOLULU
San Francisco Agents The Nevada Bank
of San Fram-lsoo.
DRAW EXCHANGE ON
San Francisco The Nevada Bank of 3an
Francisco.
Liondon The Union Bank of London (Ltd.).
New York American Exchange National
Bank.
Chicago Mer'hftiit- National Bank.
Paris Com ptoir National d'Escompte de
Paris.
Berlin Dr. mdm r Bank.
Ilomrkonir and Yokohama Hongkong and
Shanghai Banking Corporation.
New Zealand and Australia Bank of
New Zealand.
Victoria and Vancouver Bank of Mon
treal.
Transact a General Bankma s Exctianoe Business
Term and Ordinary Deposits Received.
Loans made on Approved Security. Commer
cial and Travelers' Credits Issued. Bills of
Exchange Bought and Sold.
Collections Promptly Accounted For.
The Yokohama Specie Bank
LIMITED.
Subscribed Capital Yen 12,000,000
Paid Up Capital Yen 4,500,000
Reserve Fund Yen 4,130,000
HEAD OFFICE: YOKOHAMA
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES
Kobe, London, Lyons, New York,
San Francisco, Shanghai.
Bombay, Hong Kong.
Transacts a General Banking and Ex
: change Business.
Agency Yokohama Specie Bamk,
I NW REPUBLIC Bldg, Honolulu, H. L
What Is
PURIFINE?
It la the n w disinfectant wfcMI
has superseded all othr disinfect
ants, being a scientific corapou4g
having no odor, yet possessing tfca
qualities of a powerful disinfectant.
The automatic distributor shoaM
be plac d in every house in Hos
lulu where odors and germs of
ease exist. They are placed
of charge, taken care of and kepi
working day and night for fl.tt
per month. It's an innovation, but
on scientific principles, and ap
peals to everyone of common sens.
The idea is this: The distribute
drops two drops a minute, day asrf
night. Foul odors are killed, yet
no disagreeable smell of carborte
acid or crude disinfectants takes
its place. You don't know that a
powerful disinfectant Is being used
if you Judge by the lack of odor.
But it's doing the duty doing It
well. Can w. show you the "Ideal
Automatic Distributor?" Our M.
Washburn will call. If you'll
phone to
Ml Co
EXCLUSIVE At- EH 1
For the Hawaiian Islands.
BASEBALL SEASON
FIRST REGIMENT
-V8.'
HONOLULU
SATURDAY, SEPT. 12
Game Called at 3:30 p.m.
ADMISSION 25 CENTS.
WM. L, PETLRSON,
NOTARY PUBLIC,
Typewriter, Conveyancer nnd
-:- -:- COLLECTOR.
HouseH to Liet. I -ami for Sale or !.-im-.
Office with A. S. Humphreys, Kaahu
manu street.
Tel. 751. P. O. Box 365.
FOR SALE.
HOUSD and lot on Liliha, above School
street.
4312-tf
-:- THE -i-
H. M. WHITNEY, i
Contents for August, 1896.
Notes on Current Topics.
The Best Sugar Industry in America.
The Louisiana Sugar School.
Duration of the California Canning
Season.
Hawaiian Sugar via Cape Horn.
Oxydation of Sugar in Evaporators.
Fermentation of Sugars in the Sugar
House.
Sugar in London.
Beetroot Manufacture Seventy Years
Ago.
The Future of Farms and Farming in
the United States.
Practical Notes for Farmers.
Cultivation of Coffee in Mexico.
The Decline in Prices.
Pine Culture in Florida.
A British Empire Zollverein.
HAWN. GAZETTE CO.,
Publishers.
AT THE) GAZETTE OFFICE.
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Mi Pliers Mow,