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THE PACIFIC .,f. ' ADVERTISER. UONOLUmLV 12. .90.
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HOW PELEE LOST HER HEAD
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SCIENTIFIC 1
A curious division of people !;-.
classes by varying t-unshine trie -1
in the valleys of the Alps. M. Bum- n
notes that in the principal v i"loy .f
Canton Valais the villages ore m-nr'y
all on the sunny side, and in .-Me dis
trict, where the two slopen ar? a'H?ut
equal, the shady side ha only abo.i
cue-fourth as great a population is t
other. The ieople of the tuinny nil",-,
moreover,, are much more prot-pen a
and better educated.
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A BASE-BALU5T IN PRAYER MEETING
His nose . had been knocked a little
awry.
Hut his glance was straight and true;
And the three fingers left on his bit?
right hand
Gripped hard on the back of his pw.
And he said: "My friends, I am off
my base
When I stand in a box here like this;
But I feel, when the umpire says, 'Play
ball,'
That we all ought to play, hit or
miss.
"When we sign with the church we're
expected to play
Every day, hot or cold, rain or shine;
And I tell you, my friends, a very
Strong game
Is put up by Satan's nine! .i
"If we come to bat in the strength of
the Lord, , . -
Grip the willow for giving hard
knocks.
We'll Just get onto the devil's curves
And knock him clean out of. the box!
I
"Sometimes we line her out for two
bags,
Steal third in most elegant state.
But get stuck on ourselves, take too
many risks.
And Ket niDDed by Old Nick at the
plat!
"And plenty of times when your side's
about out
You seemed doomed to die on a base.
But whenever you hear your Captain
. say 'Go,
Get away at your very best pace!
"Never mind what the crowd say, j
hard for home!
Slide in on your face! Tear your
clothes!
There's an Umpire above who will
know if you're in.
His judgment is right, and it 'goes.'
Ex.
STEVENSON'S OLD HOME.
I am, much disappointed in Apia
From Robert Louis Stevenson's letters
and the fuss which the town has made
ia the international history of the re
cent past, I expected to find it a city.
It is a shabby little village of SoO for
eigners. There-are 200 British and 150
Germans, with a few Americans and
French for good measure. The town is
right on the sea, and it runs around the
V. ,-K- T ta mnAa tin nf inl p-n 1 OW-
shaped buildings roofed with galvanized
iron. A great crowd of Samoans came
down to greet the steamer, and the
whole population of foreigners was out
for the same purpose,,;
I went up to the Tivoli Hotel and
have made this my headquarters dur
ing my stay. The. town itself is easily
exhausted. It has a half dozen business
houses, engaged in shipping, cacao and
copra and in furnishing the natives
with different kinds of fancy goods,
cottons and tinned stuffs. There are
two photographers, a lot of Consuls
and a baker's dozen or so of German
officials. The Germans are now doing
the bulk of the trade and they are
gradually gobbling up the plantations.
I rode up to Robert Louis Steven
son's home. It now belongs to a Ger
man, and the cacao plantation upon
which he sweat so profusely was
"bought at half price by a German
planter. This planter has materially
added to the house and is fast destroy
ing all vestiges of Stevenson. He has
a sign over the gate in half a dozen
languages beginning "Eingang verbo
ten" and going on to say in English,
French and Samoan. that strangers are
prohibited from coming inside the gate.
Robert Louis Stevenson's tomb is over
grown with weeds and. the pilgrimages
to it from the incoming ships are less
every year. Frank G. Carpenter.
WHERE THE COLOR LINE ENDS.
There may be mulattoes, quadroons
and octoroons, but the eighth blooded
negro is the last possibility in ' that
progression. No one has even seen,
as far as we can learn, a human being
of one-sixteenth negro blood. No pure
blooded Caucasian and octoroon have
been known to have issue. Many years,ever attempted in journalism has orig
ago. Just after the close of the civil j mated in Russia and is headed: "A
war, when Bishop Newman was advo- Column from the Other World," the eu
cating.the amalgamation idea in New . itor and proprietor going on to say
Orleans, one of the most famous physi-Jwith great naivete that they have noth
rians and ethnologists of that city . ing whatever to do with the statements
offered a reward of $1,000 to any per-1 made or the questions answered by
son who would bring to his knowledge . their "invisible assistant," who pre
a human being of one-sixteenth negro ' sumably is a ghost that has opened a
uioou. .i one ever claimed the re
ward. That particular product no man
has ever yet found on earth. From the
ctoroon the reversion to type is the
only available direction. Atlanta Con
stitution. TRAIN STOPPED TO COLLECT TAXES
The "other day. Just as a train was
aooui to ieae fvutas, in Hungary, for . salesman asked him what he nmnu
Palfalva, an official appeared and put faetured.
seals on the wheels of the engine. Thei -i mej. pants." he replied,
passengers had to get oft and walk. The "How do you want to buy thes?
company was 296 crowns in arrears in I COods?"
payment of taxes. Next day the taxes
were paid and the train proceeded.
To illustrate immensity and minute
ness, Mr. J. E. Gore cites the fact that
me nearest fixed star is 2.1,009 times
as far away as the sun. and that a
specimen of certain infusoria can lie
.between two lines of an inch space
divided into 25,000 parts.
, t
The varying color of a vacuum tube
containing krypton seen by some as
lilac and by others as green is ex-
-Plained by Prof. W. Ramsay to de-'
pend on the size of the yellow spot of
the retina.
VIRTUES OF THE PINEAPPLE
The partaking of a slice of pineapple
after a meal Is quite in accordance
with physiological indications, since,
though it may not be generally known,
fresh pineapple juice contains a re
markably active . digestive principle
( similar to pepsin. This principle has
I . termed "bromelin." and so power-
bftomin
will digest as much as 1000 times its
1 n i is na clv. livi v v y -
.pj?ht within a few hours. Its diges
tive activity varies in accordance with
the kind of proteid to which it i3 sub
jected. Fibrin disappears entirely af
ter a time. With the coagulated albu
men of eggs the digestive process is
slow, while with the albumen of meat
its action seems first to produce a pulpy
gelatinous mass, which, however, com
pletely dissolves after a ihnrt time.
When a slice of fresh pineapple is
placed upon a raw beefsteak the sur
face of the steak becomes gradually
gelatinous, owing to the digestive ac
tion of the onzyme of the juice.
Of course, it is well known that di
gestive agents exist in other fruits, but
when it is considered that an average
sized pineapple will yield nearly two
pints of juice it will be seen that the
digestive action of the whole fruit must
be enormous. The activity of this pe
culiar digestive agent is destroyed In
the cooked pineapple, but unless the
pineapple is preserved by heat there is
no reason why the tinned fruit should
not retain the -digestive power. The
active digestive principle may be ob
tained from the Juice by dissolving a
large quantity of common salt in it
when a precipitate is obtained possess
ing the remarkable digestive powers
just described.
Unlike pepsin, the digestive principle
of the pineapple will operate in an
acid, neutral, or even alkaline medium,
according to the kind of proteid to
which it is presented. It may there
fore be assumed that the pineapple
enzvme would not only aid the work
of" digestion in the stomach, but would
continue that action in the intestinal
tract. Pineapple, it may be added,
contains much indigestible matter in
the nature of woody fiber, but it is
quite possible that the decidedly di
gestive properties of the juice compen
sate for this fact. Lancet.
AMBROSE BIERCE AS A PIG.
Ambrose Bierce, while out in San
Francisco recently, visited the new
house ol an old friend, a gentleman of
Irish extraction. The hostess evidently
took great pride in the house, the fur
nishings of which were new and beauti
ful and gave every evidence of taste
and refinement. Mr. Bierce, who has
an eye for beautiful, gave unstinted
praise to everything he saw.
"But," he said, '"I am sorry to see
that your house, beautiful as it is.
lacks one ornament which no Irish
house should be without."
"What is that?" she asked, " unsus
piciously.
"A pig," replied Mr. Bierce, with a
satisfied chuckle.
The hostess eyes sparkled.
"It did," she said, indignantly, "but
you have supplied the want. New
York Times.
; HM
; ABOUT F.MARION CRAWFORD.
An English writer has the following
to say of a popular American novelist:
"I was surprised when I met Marion
Crawford today down at Sarah Bern-
hardt's theater. He had been super
vising the rehearsals of 'Francesca da
Rimini.' and was very, happy with the
enthusiasm of Sarah in the work. As
we drove back together the brilliant
author told me that he could count on
his fingers the days that he had been
in England during, the last twenty
years. Southern Italy was to him a
paradise. Marion Crawford is a burly
man, almost horse guards blue in his
gait, but I should imagine of very del-
tate temperament. Although the day
was mild and a jacket was sufficient
for the ordinary man, he buttoned up
his overcoat tp the cheek bones and
then seemed chilly."
SPIRITUALISTIC JOURNALISM.
One of the most, uncommon efforts
'"bureau" for the benefit of those de
siring to
orld.
communicate with the spirit
HIS NOTE.
An ambitious Philadtiphian who
wished to start in business for himself
applied to a wholesale woollen mer
chant and obtained credit for $400. Th
"The best vey
I can." was the an-
swer.
"How will you pay for them?"
"Veil. I gif you my note for four
mont's."
"Is your note good?"
The buyer looked around, winked to
the salesman, and put his finger on his
.nose. "My vriend." he said, with the
air of one who is about to impart a
confidence, "if my note vas goot, I
vould make notes, not pants "
. . .
'"i1! .'' ,3J5 for 2. doe - and 5,)c
Sf l7.ihpK.tUer; 'eaving
t co",5 .the 325' or $1.62 per
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DIAGRAM SHOWING HOW VOLCANIC EXPLOSION IS CAUSED.
A study of the above picture will show how the molten mass in the mountain's interior met the water, and
how the steam generated thereby, following the line of least resistance, blew off the top of the volcano.
HAWAIIAN OPIUM TRADE.
DARING RISKS RUN BY CHINESE SMUGGLERS, WHO DEFY
GOVERNMENT AND TRUST THEIR COUNTRYMEN.
When sugar growing first brought
Hawaii's name before the world the
white planters finding that no depend
ence could be placed upon native labor,
began to import Chinese coolies. With
him John brought over many of his
. . I. . . - -
shipload of coolies:
arrived at Honolulu
the demand for the poppy
juice in-
creased proportionately.
In those early days a native
pipIeti ruled Hawaii ruled to all
sov-
out-
tint eham Yankee!
ward appearance
native customs. amunK u. u u"tu the revenue officers as practiced
of opium. Thus was born the Hono-jhajld3 at iniporting the "stuff," but so
lulu opium trade. As shipload after cunningly had they operated that none
rr.erchants pulled the strings behind the'ered ' the ring" on shore especially, for
throne. The King was well aware of . they were wholesale dt-ulers, and, more
it but as each pull poured a shower of , over, made no secret of it.
gold into his lap he raised no objections, j
Besides, he had a live interest in some
of th. business deals himself. I
With the increase
of the Chinese pop-j
ulation the white merchants saw a new
field for enterprise the importation of
opium.
But at first it did not pay. The bulk
of opium was small in comparison to
its value, arid all the sailors km inc om
ing ships brought chestfuls of it. This
competition made profits comparatively
small. So the strings were pulled, ami
the King declared opium contraband
to be strictly excluded from the coun-'
tiy, except as medicine. Then the trade
became profitable. Opium could be'
bought in San Francisco for from $9 f
$12 a pound, could be smuggled into
Honolulu, and there sold for $60. a prof-
it of 500 per cent. A fairly good reve-,
nue service killed off too much compe-'
tition, and smuggling became a safe
.nH ,nH,Mft KViou tr, th npmhprs
of "the ring" profitable to outsiders,
also, but not safe. I
t The establishment of the steamship
lines between the Orient and San Fran
cisco, via Honolulu was a great blow
to the business. The men in the crews
bought their "dope" in Hong Kong for
$2 a-pound, and smuggled great quanti
ties into Hawaii. Prices fell a half, and
there remained steady.
In regard to the smuggling of opium
into Hawaii a former Quartermaster on
MIDSUMMER
ONE OF THE NEW
j
I jilti
a Pacific steamer gives the following
account from his personal experiences:
Some years ago, before the acquisi
tion of the Islands by the United States,
I was quartermaster on a steamer that
made regular trips between Honolulu
and San Francisco. We had as part
I of our crew a number of men known
of them had ever been actually cap
tured, although the revenue officers had
made several desperate, efforts to do so.
There was not a soul aboard the s.hip
that did not have secret dealings with
the Chinese ashore
but it was these
half dozen men in particular that both-
One of these men, a quartermaster
ana my waicn mate, was repuieo iu uc
the rn-t daring of the lot. He was a
quiet Iittie fellow, with a mild voice
and quiet manner. "Billy, as 1 will
call him, had belonged to "the ring"
in former days, but some quarrel or
uisagreement over a division of spoils
had caused him to withdraw and start
out independently. From that moment
he became a marked man. But that
was as far toward his capture as they
ever got. "Billy
marked some of the
n several later occa-
shore gang, too
sions. or their tools, ratner. lor tney
"r did thir " "Shting.
Often on our night watches when
the decks were deserted, save by us.
-Billy" and I would, pace up and down
the bridge, he entertaining me with
tales of his past life and escapades,
Some of the means that he employed
n Passing his illicit merchandise ashore
we,e unique., The stuff was packed in
small five tael (half pound) tins, re
sembling matchboxes. On one occasion
"Billy" concealed a dozen of these tins
in a bundle of magazines, made hollow
by cutting a square hole through all
but the top and bottom magazines. The
customs officer searched him thorough
ly, but never for a moment suspected
the bundle of reading matter. This
trick was played successfully every trip
for years,
One night "Billy
was not so lucky
FASHIONS.
SHIRT WAISTS.
It was our watch on deck until mid
night. By 10 o'clock the decks were
practically deserted. The vessel was
anchored out some distance from the
wharves. Shortly after 10 o'clock a
shore boat crept out under our stern.
"Billy," with three of the crew, drop
ped down into her from the taffrail,
and the boat slipped off Into the gloom
that enveloped the shore. In case of In
quiry from any superior officer I was
to explain my watch mate's absence
with some plausible story.
It was past 11 o'clock when I heard
the report of a gun, followed by the
doleful wail of a bullet over the bay.
Looking up toward the Walklki beach
above the town I saw the flash of guns,
and several more shots followed. This
continued for several minutes, then all
was quiet again.
Midnight .was approaching and my
uneasiness was increasing. "' I coulJ
think of no possible story to excuse
"Billy's" absence to the relieving offi
cer who would come on deck then. So
quiet was the night that I could plainly
hear the warehouse watchman cough
on fl.'p steamship wharf. But no signs
of "Billy."
Ten minutes before 12 a phosphores
cent glow in tile water at th foot of
the gangway attracted my attention.
A moment later "Billy" crawled up the
steps, wet and bedraggled.
The night's adventure had cost him
$.00: A revenue launch had spotted
them within 100 yards of the beach.
I!reape with the boat would have been
impossible, so the smugglers threw
their opium overboard. Hearing the
splashes the revenue officers opened
fire with their rifles. Unable to make
a fight of it the smugglers sprang into
the bay. "Billy," being a good swim
mer, struck out for the ship, two miles
distant, while the others escaped
ashore, coming aboard early in th
mornirg watch. The captured boat
was identified as belonging to a boat
man ashore long suspected of crooked
work, but as nobody could disprove hL-i
assertion that the boat had been stolen
from his landing the case was dropped
for lack of legal evidence. The follow
ing day "Billy" was accosted on the
rr ..boat' wharf by one of the revenue
oi!:. rs:
"Well. 'Billy,' we almost nabbed you
last night."
"But you didn't," sai.l "Billy" coolly,
"so the drinks are on you." The ex
cise man grinned sheepis-'y and stood
the drinks.
A great deal of the smusgling was J
accomplishc-d by small sloops or j
sc hooners. They would load at Van- j
couver. B. C, where opium cost only
$!. Sailing dow n to the Islands, they '
would land their goodsunder cover of
a.daik night. When such an enter-
prise was successfully accomplished
the entire brotherpn -i, 0f smugglers
knew it by the change in the market,
as the price dropped several dollars.
"Billy" declared that every ton landed
meant a fall of $1. Sometimes these
s-chooners were captured, as their own
ers seldom belonged to "the ring," their
intention being to make one grand haul
and then retire from business.
The methods of the men In the inner
"ring" were simple enough. A certain
merchant would have a consignment of
petroleum or matches or tinned fruits
sent to nun by steamer freight. These
Roods were marked ." and the rev
enue officers understood. Once h shore,
the stuff was easily disposed of.
"Billy" one day pointed out to me a
small Chinese ciir store In King
Ktreei.
"That." he said, "is ,h Sinn's Joint.
I ileal with hin i."
The iriipli.it confidence the smug
Kl' is had in their Miisc confederates
was remarkable. They would l.-ac
several hundred dollars' worth of ih"
stuff in a Chinaman's charge, not ask
ing even ;i receipt in return. A day or
t,,o later would turn up abiird
tiie hip, ostensibly to nolii ii wash.
"low iiiiiclice'.'" he would ask his
cnuiior, taking him aside.
"Two fifty, John."
.John would fiitebl- reluctantly in
Koine mysterious jxuket.
"Too muchee," he would protest.
If he could beat his man down a few
dollars he did so. but if he couldn't In
laid down the full amount in gold.
On one occasion "Billy' was taken
si.-k in San Francisco, which oblisii!
him to'niisfl several trips. Hospital
expenses soon exhausted all his money.
Ah Sing, in Honolulu, owed him $."0.
As a last hop? "Billy" wrote to him.
explaining his situation. By return
mall he received 1100 from Sing. A
note was inclosed, written In excellent
P.nglish:
"I send you 50 extra guess you will
An improvement in npotrnt.js fi r
depositing thin films cl--trie-ally I
claimed by Herr Kndruwelt, of B mi.
An endless metal band Is used in :
Junction with the usual electroly.v
baths, and this band, first coate 1 .vi (
potassium sulphide and washed, :
ceives a nickel film on passage thriu.:i
the nickel solution. This film Is bark
ed with copper in a similar copj r
solution, a further backing with touli
paper being applied before strijijilr.
Rolls of paper . with a brilliant r.lck -I
surface may be thus produced, u.:id
these may have a variety of applk.t
tlons. Colored and embossed. :h-y
make attractive wall-papvrs anl sliov. -cards.
Electricity for stimulating t:ie
growth of cereals, vegetables art i th-r
plants has been tried In many ;i:-
ments by Dr. Selim Loinstrou., tr.e
Norwegian investigator. On arable
land of medium quality an iirr- is? -t
43 per cent In the crops has been ob
tained, but the increase Is greater in
proportion to the care in cultivati n.
The effect is trifling on poor soil. Tiv
electric current proves injurious to
most if not all plants in hot nun-
shine, and such plants as peas, cab
bages and turnips are favorably in
fluenced only after watering. Kstf-
mates of cost lead Dr. I'ringsheim to
conclude that electricity In agriculture
will pay.
It was formerly supposed th:ix t'.u?
tides of the Bay of Fundy may ha ve
a range of 70 feet or more, but a f c v
years ago Mr. W. Bell Dawson show 1
this to be an exaggeration. His li te
observations confirm the oonclud n.
The rangre of the greatest spring tids
at Noel Bay is 50 feet and th.-a
neap tides la 43V4 feet; at Horton Bit ft
the ranges are 48 feet and 40 feet. Th
highest tide on record, the "fnx:-y
tide" of 1869, rose 53 feet above t.i
lowest point to which the water h i
been known to ebb out. This tide .
29.24 feet above mean sea level, a d
the lowest level of low water kiv m
was 23.76 fee-t below mean sec i I.
Radium, the most active of th-
new elements emitting nvisib! i;d.
tionp. his been proven -by Prof. C,- .
F. Parker to be a cheap iind -fJVie,il
substitute for X-ray apparatus f v
photographing internal parts of the.
body. When the hand was place 1 be
tween the metal and the sensitive
plate, a picture showing the bones u is
taken in half a minute. Asi'k fn v.
this valuable property, radium rays
act like Roentgen rays in producir.g
phosphorescence and' discharging eb-e-trified
bodies. Radium is one of the
greatest of puzzles on account of l:s
anomalous expenditure of energy with
out appearing to lope any or to receive
any from the sunlight or other source.
Wood sleepers for railways '.i:iv tn1
disadvantage of .short life un.itr l
most favorable conditions, arid in
warm climates they are quickly
fdroyed by ius.'ets and vegetable para
sites. Creosoting. while adding sorr."
what to the durability, gives re;
-d risk from fire. ii n. .-ioe. ; ,;irl-e-and
tempered glass have be-n t r I -' 1 .
but all have proven more or 1 un
suitable for sleepers. The m-rils yf
armored cement, which lin ;;rrv-n
very effective in beamn and uirdc-s,
are urged by M. Michel Sard. S!" ;
ers of this material would cos? s-. f "
more than those of iron and Ihi
times as much as those of wood, 1 mi
they would be indestructible, wl.
giving a more stable roadway, and !?.
is claimed that in HO years they wo-.M
yield a large saving.
The available coal yet stored In the
earth in Oermany is estimated by Pr 'f.
Ferdinand Fischer, of flottlngen, at
lfiO.000 million tons; in Kngland. or Iv
81,500 million tons: in Belgium. Ai.-
tria-Hungary and France, about 17,.oo
million tons each. The store of Rus.-ia
hut imperfectly known. North
America can produce C.M.OO ) lilll n
tons, and Baron von Itiet Jiof - h i
stated that China hns n supply nsarly
c.s great. Japan, Horned anl Nt v
South Wales have considerable coal;
Africa, an unknown quantity. Ger
many's coal should last another thou
sand years, but Kngland's supply will
begin to show signs of exhaustion
within fifty years. In the United
States the production has Increasl
from about 6.200,000 tons in 1891 to
nearly 4.".000,oo0 in 1!01.
The effect of Intestinal bacteria up
on digestion continues to attract ex
perimenters. Confining chickens In
germ-free cages and feeding them w:ih
sterilized food. Prof. Schottelius Law
found that they ute ravenously an l
evideiirVy digested well, but 1 ,st
strength and flesh. Other tests gtv
positive proof of the necessity of In
testinal bacteria to nutrition. Chickens
hatched (n germ-free quarters thrived
on sterilized food for a week, wh n
they began to decline in weight and
strength, and they were then divhi d
into a group fed on sterilized food and
one given food containing bacteria.
Those of the Hrst group all died ir. a
few days, while the others grew rap
idly and were soon indistinguisha Mo
from other chickens of the poultry
yard. These result! confirm thos of
Mine. Metcbniko.T. who has record d
a greatly retarded growth in tadpr '.
kept entirely on sterilized food.
need it. You can pay me back n xt
trip. SING."
Where the opium is smoked by tin"
Honolulu Chinamen I never learned. I
heard of only one place in the out
skirts of the town, the entrance to
which was through a tomb in the cem
etery. A grinning skull was carved
over the door. Since the establishment
of our Government there this place was
raided, together with all other retreats
ef the same c haracter. But the larfiesf
percentage of the stuff went to the
ptantati. on the other islands. N-w
Vork Tribune.