The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume], May 06, 1899, Page 6, Image 6

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THE PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER: HONOLULU. MAY G. mm
TO TONE UP THE
SYSTEM AGAIM3T
OPPRESSIVE HE,Vi
Ji Consider it Unequaied?
Mr. ICdwin Hright of Iirisban.,
Queensland, gives this strong testi
monial :
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'I am pleased to say I have u
both in the United States and throul
out Australia whenever I have felt th
need of a tonic. As a remedy for oi
of appetite, weakness and debility, an
to tone up the system to w ithstand th
oppressive heat and sudden chanj;ei
consider it unequaled."
For constipation take Dr. Ayei's Pills. Tin
froinptly relieve ami surelv eure. Take tl e
witu Dr. Ayer'.s Sarsajiarilla: one s.ids the citli
HOLLISTER DRUG CO.. Agents.
HOUSE LOTS FOR SALE!
TEN HOUSE LOTS for sale at Ke-
walo Tract on Laniwai Street and
Cooke street.
For further particulars apply to Mrs.
Theresa Wilcox at Bethel Street, next
door to Post Office, tip staira over the
New Land Restaurant.
LOTS FOR SALE
AT -
KAPALAMA.
TWENTY-SIX LOTS for sale at Ka
palama on Insane Asylum Road, and
also Lots facing on new School street
road, which runs as far as the Ka-
mehameha Schools, which will be
opened soon. These lots are not far
from King street.
Map of these lots can be seen at my
Office, Bethel Street.
MRS. THERESA WILCOX.
NEW : LINE
OF
flilNDSOME SILK
BED-SPREADS,
TABLE COVERS, GRISS
CLOTH CENTRE PIECES,
These are of very dain
ty patterns.
Also a new line of
Pajamas, Neck
Ties, Suspenders,
Handkerchiefs.
More New Goods to fir-
five soon !
Murata & Co.
HOTEL ST., COR. MDOARU.
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Branch Hat Store, Nuuanu St
WE
Have added another delivery
wagon to our establishment.
Parties living at Waikiki or
any other part of the city, who
desire their Bread, Cakes, etc.,
delivered free of charge, leave
your order at our store or call
up Telephone 677 and they will
set prompt attention.
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The GERMAN BAKERI
TELEPHONE 677.
833 FORT ST.
Hawaiian Moss Opal Jewelry
Suitable for Cuff Buttons,
Pins, Belts, Etc
SOUVENIR SPOONS, In different designs
JEWELRY
Of all kinds made to order.
BIART
40434 FORT Bl
JEWELER.
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A LITERARY GEM
BROUGHT FORWARD
(Carroll Carringion in the San Fran
Cisco Examiner.)
In the midst of a wide waste of po
litical -waters Mr. Ambrose Bierce
raises a hopeful eye to the horizon and
descries in the distance a green isle in
the shape of a poem. It is named "The
Sea of Serenity," and was published in
the Examiner, prefaced by a few lines
attributing the authorship of the verses
to Edgar A. Poe. Mr. Bierce manifests
in "Prattle" a curiosity to know more
of the mysterious poem, justifying his
interest in the matter by declaring it
to be a literary event of greater conse
quence than the thunder of politics or
the clash of arms. He calls upon the
writer of the prefatory note to shed
more light upon the question of auth
orship. The writer of the prefatory
note rises to remark that he wishes he
might.
But he has no light to shed. The
poem was sent to him by a friend who
had found it in a collection of unpub
lished manuscripts with the name of
Edgar Poe affixed to it. A reading of
the lines, more than the name itself,
persuaded thle discoverer that he had
hit upon a veritable Poe production,
and when he sent it post-haste to the
writer hereof the latter took to the idea
like a fish on an angler's holiday. The
poem is here reproduced:
THE SEA OF SERENITY.
I.
From the Mountains of the Moon,
O'er her silent, silver valleys,
Lit by earth-light soft in June,
And Aurora Borealis,
I and Isabel the saintly,
Mute upon the mountain's top,
Listened to the sweet dews faintly
Into nether caverns drop.
II.
And we spoke not and we moved not
In our musiner melancholy:
Deep we loved, but, ah! we loved not
.As thev love in worlds unholy.
There the earth hung full and golden
O'er our planets pallid plain,
And all memories of the olden
Days of the Earth swam back again
III.
With a soft, a sad insistence,
Plowed a stream of melody
Through the ether, through the dis
tance,
Flowed for Isabel and ine.
From the zenith, blazing white,
Green a-nd purple, opalescent,
Blue and crimson suns with light
Bathed the nadir, iridescent.
IV.
Many million triple suns,
Violet and lilac, burning
Where the crystal zodiac runs,
On its golden axis turning.
Brighter than the flames of Endor
Glowed the ruby sphere terrestrial
With a nimbus crowned whose splend
or
Was seraphic and celestial.
V.
O'er her scintillating face
Bushed a mad and radiant river;
O'er the poles it poured its race
Where tormented torches quiver.
Oh! their spiral tongues unending
Like the mines of Ophir burned,
To a liquid luster blending
As their jeweled globe was turned.
VI.
Then I glanced at her beside me
With the glory in her eye,.
Deep I signed for words denied me
Deep Ave sighed, yet knew not why,
Spoke the Sibyl of the Utter
Silence, with her waving wings,
With her shadow wings that flutter
Over nil Unfathomed Things:
VII.
'Yonder star whose luster lonely,
Tinted like the Triton's horn,
Seems a sun its- flames are only
Flames of human passions born.
Love and Life and Thoughts that -sver
Burn within the mortal breast,
Flames which shall not die, oh, never
Shall they die and never rest!
Till yon globe shall burn to ashes
Like this icy orb decrease
Cold and dark with love she flashes
Love till all that is shall cease."
Thus the Sibyl swift our planet
Rushed into a vast eclipse,
And a shadow overran it,
And the Night lay on our lips.
But on our lips re-echoed lowly,
In that Universal Peace,
Lowly, slowly, softlyr holy
"Love till all that is shall cease."
EDGAR A. POE.
Now, is it Poe, or is it not? The nat
ural inference is affirmative, for who
but Poe could, or can, write like that?
The question involves something more
than a mere personal choice of opinion.
It cannot be disposed of off-hand with
the sweeping assertion that "Poe prob
ably left no unpublished work behind
him," or with an arbitrary disincli
nation to credit "these alleged voices
from the grave." The question is more
serious and more important than that.
It demands from the one who answers
it negatively an answer to a much
more difficult problem: "If Poe did
not write 'The Sea of Serenity,' tell us
where we can find the man, or woman,
who did write it."
If that man, or woman, be found, we
sball have before us in the flesh a per
son who may very easily reconcile us
to the fact that Poe did not write this
verse, and to the fact al?o that Poe is
not alive, to write us any other. We
will have a substitute in his place who
will make it unnecessary to search the
past when we feel in need of a little
Poe singing before breakfast of a sum
mer morning.
Perhaps Mr. Bierce has a "theory"
that will more plausibly account for
the verses' existence. For my part,
when I have found a man who can
write more verses like "The Sea of
Serenity," I shall go to theorizing with
some confidence in the present and less
of steadfast conviction in the monop
olization by Poe of that certain trick of
metering which makes this fugitive
singing so like the Raven's note-swinging
in the days when he lived upon the
earth. If I make so unlikely a find I'll
let Mr. Bierce know about it and I
myself will know w'ho wrote "The Sea
of Serenity."
HONOLULU ALtVE.
When you know a good thing tell it,
It will not lessen its goodness.
But Avill do good to others.
If you've been cured, tell it.
There's more misery just like it,
Waiting to find out how.
There are lots of lame backs in Ho
nolulu. fit's a busy place and people must
work.
There's kidney trouble to a large ex
tent.
Ever notice how many people over
40 complain?
Seven out of ten say colds affect their
kidneys.
The kidneys are the cause, not the
colds. Keen them in shape by all
means.
You can do it easily and pleasantly.
No nauseating disturbances.
No effect except on the. kidneys.
But that effect is quick and perma
nent.
Doan's Backache Kidney Pills do
perfect work.
Honolulu is full of tneir praises.
Mr. ,H. G. Crabbe,- of Nuuanu street,
this city, formerly a merchant and
clerk, is now a collector. He writes:
"My age is 69 years and I am blessed
with children and grandchildren. For
about two years 1 have been troubled
with a severe pain in the back. A short
time ago I procured some of Doan's
Backache Kidney Pills at Hollister &
Co., drug store, and found great relief
through using them. I keep some of
the pills by me as a safeguard against
attacks of my old complaint, which I
need not fear so long as I have a, rem
edy like Doan's Backache Kidney Pills
to combat them."
For sale by all dealers; price 50 cents
per box, six boxes $2.50. Mailed by the
Hollister Drug Co., Ltd., Honolulu,
wholesale agents for the Hawaiian
Islands.
HARSHLY EXPRESSED.
"I am determined to preserve the
honor of the French army," shouted
the man who had been fighting promi
nently in the Dreyfus case.
"You're doing worse than that," an
swered the blunt American soldier.
"You're embalming it."
HIS WAY OF PUTTING IT.
"What we want to do," said a mem
ber of a self-constituted legislative
body in far seas, "is to establish a
board of public works."
"That's right," responded the col
eague, "I have never thought Ave have
been working the public as thoroughly
as we might."
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Rugs,
CENTER, SOFA AND STAND
Heavy Stock and Great Choice.
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OF Best Value Ever Imported
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Covers
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Mo. 1 0 8TREET
A FANATIC'S BED OF NAILS.
Many queer modes of self punishment are practiced by religion fanatics in IndL,
but few are as painful as the bed of nails, shown in the picture. This man takes care
that his zeal is witnessed by the multitude, for he is the recipient of considerable alms
from those who observe his devotion. The nails lacerate his flesh terribly.
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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
American, Havana and Manila Cigars
TOBACCO, SNUFF, AND
Smokers' Articles.
Fine Grades SMOKING TOBACCO a specialty.
Cor. Fort and Merchant Sts. - - - Honolulu.
ere Are P
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OUR SPECIALTY IS
sanitar
There's as much difference between plumbing and SANI
TARY PLUMBING ap there is between daylight and darkness.
Anvone can put a lot of pipes together and run them off
anywhere, but with Honolulu's
point is to have the plumbing
Sanitary conditions perlect.
JOHN
6-79 KING ST.
We Are Prepared
To fill all orders
RPPHIALTIES. such as Patent Dron Boxes to fit in Pigeon
Holes, Letter Files, Bill Files, Insurance Cabinets, Library Tables, etc.
We have a large shipment
BOXES to arrive soon.
in tit i c i i ? i 1 1
JP we ueiy COmpeilUOn, DOIQ 111
Everybody knows we make Jj
but probably you have not seen
spring coyer, and so simple a child
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COYNE--MEHRTEN MM
J. A. MEHRTEN, MANAGER.
Progress Block.
K A Small Lot just received
w and for sale at the
City Furniture Store
H. H. WILLIAMS, Manager.
Love Buildings 534-536 Fort St.
TELEPHONE 846; RESIDENCE. 849.
"The Pipe draws wisdom from the
lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the
mouth of the foolish; it generates a style ol
conversation, contemplative, thoughtful,
benevolent and unaffected." Thackeray.
D
te.
Plumbing.
surface sewerage the essential
done in a way that makes the
NOTT.
TELi NO. 'V
for DESKS AND OFFICE
of LJU&KS witn I'Ai'JiWi uitur
i : a c i,r.. r1 ,1-, A C
quality ui lucjc vtuuub anu pin;eB.
ABIES' 3JOX COUCHES
the latest improvement. It is a
can raise it without any difficulty.
E
TOR
COMPANY
LIMITED
Offer for Sale:
REFINED SUGARS.
Cube and Granulated. . T
PARAFINE PAINT CO.'S
Paints, Compounds and BulMiatf
Papers.
PAINT OILS,
Lucol Raw and Boiled. "
Linseed Raw and Boiled. ,
INDURINE,
Water-proof cold-water Paint. Im
fide and outside; In -white a
colors.
FERTILIZERS,
Alex. Cross & Sons high-rad
Scotch fertilizers, adapted for
gar cane and coffee.
N. Ohlandt & Co.'s chemical fertil
izers and finely ground Boat
Meal.
STEAM PIPE COVERING,
Reed's patent elastic aectional pip
covering.
FILTER PRESS CLOTHS,
Linen and Jute.
CEMENT, LIME & BRICKS.
AGENTS FOR
WESTERN SUGAR REFINING CO.,
San Francisco, CL
ALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS,
Philadelphia, Penn., U. S. i
EWELL UNIVERSAL MILL 'CO..
(Manf. "National Cane ShredderM).
New York, U. S. A.
OHLANDT & CO.,
San Francisco, Cal.
IISDON IRON AND LOCOMOTTVH
WORKS,
San Francisco, CaL
A Modei Plant Is not complete with
out Electric Power, thus dispensing
1th small engines.
Why not generate your power froa
one CENTRAL Station? One genr-
Ator can furnish power to your Pump,
Centrifugals, Elevators, Plows, Rail
ways and Hoists; also, furnish light
and power for a radius of from 15 to
20 miles.
Electric Power being used, saves th
labor of hauling coal in your field, also
water, and does away with high-priced
engineers, and only have one engine to
ook after In your mill.
Where water power is available it
costs nothing to generate Electric
Power.
THE HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC COM
PANY Is now ready to furnish Electric
'ants and Generators of all descrip
tlc at short notice, and also has on
aand a large stock of Wire, Chande
ers and Electrical Goods.
All orders will be given prompt at
tention, and estimates furnished for
Lighting and Power Plants; also, at
tention is given to House and Marln
Wiring.
THEO. HOFFMAN, Manager.
WM. G. IRWIN & CO.,
LIMITED.
Wm. G. Irwin.. President and Manager
Claus Spreckels Vice-President
JJ- Giffard..Secretary and Treasurer
H. M. Whitney. Jr Auditor
SUGAR FACTORS
-AND-
COMniSSION AGENTS
AGENTS FOR THE
Oceanic Steamship Company
Of San Francisco, r?aA