The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-09

! water at all. 1 asked the natives on
! the island to help us bring her off,
but they refused, saying that they pre-
! ferred to have the vessel to any mon
ey that 1 could give them. On the
! fourth day she made plenty of water,
so that we had to leave her and go on
| the island. AS I saw that could save
nothing more and that the natives
We're beginning to plumber the yacht, I
set her afire, pouring kerosene on her.
She was burning for three days and
/ then disappeared altogether. After
ward we lived on the island until TAX
en- off by a passing vessel.
Countess FeSteticS one charge of
cruelty that was kept constantly before
! the court was the fact that she was
/ forced for years to remain aboard the
Tolna; that nights of cruel agony were
spent by her aboard the little vessel
as it tossed in the hurricanes OF the
| ocean. Count Festetics denies all this
| He and his wife, he ayers, were the
| guests of a kings family on one oc-
casion-the King Of Tahiti Again
they roomed in palaces or dwelt in the
aristocratic mansions of the cities they
had visited. In proof of his assertion
! he forwarded a letter with his deposit
ton written by his wife to his mother
| from Singapore in November of 1898.
That Countess Festetics at least as
sumed a cheerful demeanor and rejoic-
! offered her is manifest in the letters.
| Some of the extracts are interesting
| She says:
| Poor Rudolph has been very sick at
Borneo during the whole week He
/ had to stay in bed, which left him so
feeble that the first time he went out
| he caught a cold, which soon turned
| into bronchitis. Really Rudolph dis
| tresses. me. He is by no means strong
! yet. and he pays less attention to his
/ health than any one Since we arrived
at Singapore he is better, for every
one is so kind, inviting US to pass a
! week here and week there and we
are almost no longer on board. Singa-
pore is excessively gay. Races, festivi-
| ties, garden parties, dinners without
| end. Luckily the week of races Is fin
| ished. Rudolph rode in two races, but
! his horse was so bad that he could not
win. That is what made me lose a
| good deal of money, as l put my whole
fortune on him. q really find that he
ought to have reimbursed me.) Since
three days we are at the Government
| House. Besides Rudolph and myself
| there is a Captain and Nine Louis
Jones and the Captain and Nine. Far
mar. The Governor, Sir Alexander
Swetnam, is charming, and his r. D. |
p, the Captain Duff, is also very nice |
TIGER CHASE IN HONOR OF THE
COUNTESS.
! On the 18th of this month we go to
Sir Frank Swetnam, who is the resi- I,
dent general of the Malay Peninsula. !
He has organized an enormous tiger |
chase for us. Louise Jones will also
be of the party. Really must make !
you my excuses my dear mother, for /!
this scribbling, but since two days L
have suffered with fever, which makes /!
my hand tremble so.
This afternoon there is an interment |
of the young secretary of the Cover |
nor, who died this morning at o'clock. |
l think that this is too terrible, to De |.
buried SO quick as that. 1t was only |.
Monday evening that he became sick |
and we had all arranged to go Sunday !
together to Jehoor. The heat in my /
room is extreme, though the punkah !.
moves very deftly over my head. I am
as in a sweat bath. 1t is terrible FOR /
the hair. 1t is necessary to have the (
hair waved every day. There comes
my little tailor, who brings me my
black dress which he has arranged for ;
this evening. My little tailor is charm .
ing. He makes you very fashionable
dress for S., not Is francs. He made
me a good many robes of muslin, but
that is SO difficult to get here of nice
material, and the women dress them |
selves so well. Almost all nave their
dresses come from Paris Nine. Won |
an sufficiently famous, dresses ravish- |
ingly She has all her dresses come !
from Judith. How foolish all of this |
is that l am writing you. You must |
think me a little foolish, but L must |
confess that l am enough American to |
adore handsome dresses.
After quoting the letter Count Fes- |
tetics reaches the beginning Of the end !
of his story. He continues:
My name is Count Rudolph Festetics, !
and 1 was born on the 18th day of ,
June, 1865, at Bolougne sur Seine, Par |
is, France. For the last ten years I |
have been travelling in various parts Of |
the world, although my legal residence !
has remained at Vienna. I never de-
serted my wife and never have lived |
separate and apart from her against
her will. / never wilfu1ly or Intention
ally or without cause failed to furnish |
the plaintiff means of support. For
these reasons I ask that her prayer for ,
a decree of divorce be denied
DO you know what a tragedian is.
l os.