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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-18
TROUBLES OF AN ESTATE.

Charles 3. Aycock, Governor of North
Carolina, illustrated a point he wished
to make in a political speech by telling
a story of a young man he knew whose
father died, leaving considerable prop
erty. There were other sons and daugh-
tiers of the man, and contest over his
estate followed.
The dispute reached the courts, and
dragged along for several months.
Finally a friend met the young man,
and spoke about the suit and the con-
sequent ill-feeling.
Yes assented the young man, 1--WE
certainly are having a heap of trouble
over fathers property. Brother John
wants more than his share; sister Lucy
hasn't spoken to me for a year; brother
George is threatenin' to do some shoot
in: an 1 don't know where the thing
will end. Do you know, sometimes 1
almost wish the old man hadn't dfed?'
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-18

El-Azziz- Bou-Attour with his pictures
que appetite.
Little peas in the Partisan style are
picked too young, according TO the taste
Of many Americans They are nothing
like the big, ripe, grass-green, sugar
sweet fellows we get at home or in
England. They are tiny, little bud peas,
cooked with tiny, young onions, pearly
white. and a good quantity of lettuce
Fl-Azziz went for little peas, little
onions and lettuce Cepes are fungi-a
species of big, fat mushroon-cooked
in butter: but how could rigid Mo
ban1nnedan be sure? Eschewing the
possible grease of the pig, he threw
himself on the poached peaches. The
peach is poached as an egg and kirsch
IS poured over it and ignited. This
completes the cooking of the peach, and
the burnt kirsch forms delicious
sauce.
'sYou eat those peaches with kirsch."
said the lovely brunette, his table
neighbor on the right ''Yet you drank
no Wine. I thought liqueurs would also
be forbidden by the Koran This she
said through an interpreter.
The venerable El-Azziz-Bou-Attour
wagged his long white beard.
'Kirsch is no longer kirsch once the
alcohol is burnt out OF IT, he observed
wisely.
And both he and the hey took an
other poached peach.
STERLING HELLO.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-18

the sight of me, whom his own trusted
servants had shown him quite dead.
Behind him I saw the gaping and dis
mayed features of the worthy Gratien
and his familiar, both utterly startled
out of their former smooth self-posses-
sion. And well they might be, for
Gratien knew the deadly power of the
drug he thought had taken.
To do the Baron justice, he was
brave man. He wasted no words on the
situation, for it was well known how
the Vicomte loved his sister and hated
her impudent sutton.
His sword was out of it's sheath on
the instant and without giving me
time to arrange the duel with which I
expected to settle the affair, he shouted
at Jules to guard the lady, to the re-
mainder of his men a command to
scatter the Lorraine hounds and as
brisk a scuffle followed as one might
desire to see, for he had a fair-sized
following with him, and I as many
men for myself.
But he went down. cursing and bias
pheming. His lips, which had made so
many false promises, were red with his
own 1ife-blood rising from the fatal
sword thrust 1 gave him, and as he
lS1l his OWL men turned anu 1GQ-dlI
but the too f1eshy Gratien who tripped
over a twisted vine of a low grave and
was promptly laid by the heels. His
master died damning him for miser-
able traitor, but Gratien gave scant
heed to the awful words of the man he
had served. For he was too busy
crawling at my very feet, begging for
life, life under any conditions, so that
he might but live. All the happy philo-
sophy he had exercised over my sup
posed death had totally disappeared,
and his baggy cheeks were pasty white
as he babbIed for mercy.
Monsieur cannot forget he be-
sought, wringing his fat fingers, with
what distinction / treated monsieur
when he honored my poor inni Mon
sieur seems amazed, but surely he re-
calls how he was arrayed in new clothes
at my own expense, how respectfully
all his requests were complied with,
even though that pig of a Jules, who
never appreciates the true aristocracy, |
grew villainously impatient. / forget /
the poison? Oh, surely, monsieur did |
not really think that was poison, that !
petit verre which was but intended to !
keep monsieur out of harms way until |
he could make this so grand denoue-
ment over that parvenu, the Baron, for /
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-18
THE ADVENTURES
OF CAPTAIN CLAUDE
Continued from Page So

her promise to be guided by me was
given
OF my oath to that worn creature
who had saved me, I did not tell her.
1 merely said L would read the Baron
such a lesson at the tomb that she
need fear for neither herself nor her
brother. And together we two finish
ed the vigil which was to nave been
beside my dead body, the lamps burn
ing dimly beside use as We sat there,
talking and planning while the rose
sprays tapped fitfully against the win
dows
! Never had man a prettier day for
his funeral than I! Hidden behind a
clump of trees near the desolate ceme-
terry, I admitted as much to myself,
and whispered it to the armed men
waiting my word, who grinned and
echoed it among themselves.
The cortege seemed long in coming,
but it arrived at last. with the faith
full maid, woman of forty years,
masquerading as her mistress and
weeping quite energetically under her
long veil.
The little band, chiefly women and
old men, gathered decorously around
the yawning; grave, and at the word
of the priest the stone-fflled coffin was
duly lowered and the clods thrown ON.
I had been through so much that the
service affected me not at all; I was
filed with q knocking anticipation of
the Baron's arrival, which he wisely
timed for the very moment the mourn
ers were turning from the grave.
Patiently I bided my time. 1 saw
him seize the maids gloved hand. I
heard, while she in vain tried to
wrench it away-I heard the senes-
chal cry shame" on him, and order
him to loose the lady. I waited till
the insolent lover had hidden the old
servant to seek a new mistress in hell,
for that Alix was his, under the mar
riage ceremony or not as he might
choose, and then I burst from the THO
ket.
The Baron was tall man and a
hardened one, but he went white at
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-18

PARIS, Aug. ell Mr.. RooseVei
should come to France as President o
the United States, how would French
men feed him?
This is not conundrum, but a prob
lem of protocolic import, just exempt
fed in the case of the Bey of Tunis
who came as hey and was received
as such When the French government
starts in to feed a Dotentate the COM
position of his meals falls under the
high and severe department of the pro-
focol. The idea is to give the best,
served in French taste and order. And
woe to the potentate who has not in his
heart the poetry of feeding
Mohammed ell Had passed through
the trial with g1orv. But his first min
ister is an old man, whose name is FL
Azziz- Bou-Attour. Having no teeth,
the latter could not eat meat And
being an old-fashoned Mussulman, he
looked shy at all vegetables that might
be cooked in grease. Therefore the ven
cradle El-Azziz- BourAttour stoically sat
through splendid dinners, waiting for
dessert and fruit
PARISIANS ARE STARTLED.
At the .'militarv lunch given by the
minister of war the unhappy El-Azziz-
Bou-Attour began to be poticed by
Parisians. 1t was "a highly favorable
lunch for an aged minister without
teeth. Following is the menu:
Iced melon.
Georgette potatoes.
Salmon-trout, Partisan style.
Chateaubriand.
Fricaseed chicken. curry.
Sorbets.
Seven-hour mutton.
Chaufroid CT guinea hen, truff1es.
Salade Gau1oise.
Little peas, Partisan style.
Cepes, Bordeaux style.
Poached peaches.
Fruits, ices.
El-Azziz- Bou-Attour went for the mi
tial melon with courage that startled /
the Parisians. They are the big warty,
green-gray melons of Partisan forced !
culture, which only the very young and
the old and utterly discouraged dare TO
eat It is a sweet coiic-bringer. It's
gray green exterior coilceals deep, al
most orange-yellow pup, almost solid,
with surprisingly few, seeds. The aged
Ei-Azziz- Bou-Attour was starting on
his third slice when Nine Andre, wife
Of the minister of war, charitably wills
pered to an aide-de-champ. who with
exquisite tact explained to the Caid ST.
Moustafa-Den-G uebli the risk which the
svi1ite-haired sage was running.
DRINKS ICE WATER FREELY.
El-Azziz- Bou-Attour smiled benign
antly, and held out his glass for min
eral water! Then he wagged his veneer
able beard sagaciously.
what does he want?" whispered
Mime. Andre
He wants a big chunk of ice in it.
answered the Caid.
Give it to him % said the fair wife of
he minister of war, concealing her ter
ror.
Still drinking ice-water. El-Azziz
turned to the Georgette Potatoes, a
comparatively recent triumph of Paris
AN cooker invented by the late JOS
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-18
Antiques Are Horrible

nnder certain conditions. We refer to
ANTIQUE pieces of furniture. Antique
furniture is horrible unless in good re-
pair. The islands contain hundreds of
homes which have pieces of furniture
that reached here in the early days.
some of this came from the famous
Did cabinet makers of the continent of
Europe. More of it came around the
Horn from New England. The makers
IF this furniture are long dead. But
soday their work is termed antique
and is highly priced, not alone because
4 the magnificent hand workmanship
displayed, but also because of the
curious designs and patterns shown in
Z this furniture. The chair seats may
ook ragged and the polish of the wood
York dim and unattractive. Possibly
sou have sent some of it, on account of
IS raggedness, to servants quarters.
Eou should dig it up now. Remember
bat this old furniture is very valuable.
Remember that the woodwork as a rule
as sound as on the day the article
tas made. The upholstering needs to
e done over, paint scraped OF the
soodwork and repolished-then you
ave a new article, with the added adj
antage that it is extremely valuable
nd of unique pattern.
we do this work. Our skilled furni-
IRE repairers have for over twenty
sars been putting polish on furniture
I'D putting it on too in a manner that
sits this climate.
We viii be pleased to give you an
inmate.
,. HOPE q. 90.
urHiture Dealers and Upholsterers.
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-. ~s 9 PR d 9,
urHiture Dealers and Upholsterers.
King and Bethel streets.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-25
PHILATELIC CURIO.
Drummer at the Wilson Receives a
Unique Letter This Morning.

John Maclennan, a travelling sales
man who headquarters at the Wilson,
received letter from his brother this
morning, which has Travelled practical
ly around the world in endeavorlng to
get from Australia to st, Louis. 1t
was mailed In Melbourne, Aus, on Aug.
%, addressed to Mr.. Maclennan at ho-
tel in st. Louis. Instead Of coming TO
st. Louis, the next postmark showed
II az Point Degalle, CeylOn. II was
next stamped in Mnuritius, France. The
officials In that city started II to st.
Louis on Oct Is. Four days later the
letter was AZ Marseilles. and the week
following, II passed through the Paris
Office, From here II actually got start
towards 81. Louis and was received
there.
Then somebody forwarded It to San
Francisco, and there the hotel fired IL
back TO Salt Lake. Having started
Aug, 2b, 1908, II reached It's destination
exactly Ave months later.
Mr. Maclcnnan IL very much puzzled
over the strange ,mis-transt The only
reasonable theory Is that Il became
mucilaged TO a piece Of French mail
upon leaving Melbourne and went
through 10 the continent In that way,
Still its subsequent rambllngs are not
explained. The many postmarks give
the envelope the appearance Of an art
lists well-daubed palette, One OF them
IL unexplalnable, II Is simply Re
unlon Mr. Maclennan thinks posgi.
bly, this is the name Of n ship and that
the letter was transferred In mid-ocean
at some period of the pyrotechnio tour
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-25
SMITH WO0LLEY WINS.
President Roosevelt Sends His Name TO
The Senate for the Second Time
Especial to the News. y

Washington d. c, Jan. 25.--After
considering all the evidence submitted
to the secretary OF the treasury and the
subsequent papers fled with him, by
Senator Hepburn. President Roosevelt
has decided that Smith Wooley is COM
petent and a 1T man for the position
OF 4. S. assayer at Boise.
President Roosevelt said this morn
ms that he would send the name to the
senate today but It Gid not appear in
the first list OF nominations. Suisse
quentlY however, the presidents Sec
rotary made a second visit TO the Cap
itol. He brought with him only one
name and that was n Smith woollcy to
be assayer at Boise,
Senator Hepburn will attempt 10 Sc
cure prompt confirmation. Senator
Dubois has not yet announced his In
tentIon towards this nomination but
some time ago declared to News"
correspondent that he did not intend
make a fight,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-25
WANTS INFORMATION.
Resolution Calling on President
For More About Panama.

Washington. Jan. S,--ln the senate to-
day Mi Culberson introduced the resolu-
,lon drawn by committee appointed at
q recent Democratic conference for tho
purpose OF getting additional information
concerning the Panama situation, Tho
members OF the committee were sena-
tors German. Culberson, Carmack and
Cookrill The resolution follows
Resolved, That the president be re-
quested to inform the senate whether all
the correspondence and notes between the
department OF state and the legation OF
tho United States at Bosota and between
either Of these and tho government Of Co
lombla for the construction OF an 18th
milan canal and all the correspondence
and notes between the United States and
any OF its officials and representatives. and
the government OF Panama concerning
the separation OF Panama from Colombia
have been sent TO the senate and II not
that he he requested TO send the rcmaln-
Ing correspondence and notes to the sem
ate In executive session
The resolution went over under the
rules. Bills were passed authorizing
the construction Of bridge across the
Snake river, Idaho and authorizing the
appointment OF naval officer and sur.
veyor NJ the port OF Chicago, at SAL
AIRY OF $1,000 each.
Mr., Tlllman called up his resolution
asking the judiciary committee 10 re.
port what constitutes a recess OF the
senate. Mr., Hale argued that the De-
cember nomination OF Collector Crum
was not O new question Of the right TO
draw salary when that matter came
before him. He said that the original
nomination shows that the president
has not committed himself to any con-
structive recess between the eXtraor-
binary session and the present session
Of the senate. Mr. Mitchell interposed
that the nominations sent IN do not
give the nominees Cmeanlng Collector
Crum, Gen, Wood and others), the right
TO hold Office,
Mr.. Tlllman read letter from tho
SeCy. OF the Treasury Shaw recitlng the
various appointments OF Mr.. Crum to
the Charleston, 8, c.. collectorship and
giving the version that the last up,
polntment was made precisely nj ~
o'clock noon, on the first Monday In
December, when one session ended and
another began.
Mr. Hale said that the matter was
not Of special significance and that the
question Is not q new one and that
Mr., crum Is still serving on his APP
Mr. Tilmsn said that Mr., Crum Is
holding office just the same, and add.
ed II notice too, that Mr.. Leonard
Wood Is sending out dispatches from
the Philippines signing himself major
general aud he Is not q major general"
Continuing, he said his resolution
was under consideration and not the
nomination OF Crum Of Wood, a
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-25
EASTERN NEGOTIATIONS.
Those Between Russia and japan
At q Standstill.

Paris, Jan, 2J-Considerabl tension
Is observable In governmental quarters
concerning the Russo-Japanese situa-
ton. This Is due principally to the
fact that the efforts toward a pacific
adjustment have not made the progress
which the officials hoped and expected
The general Wow Of those highest In
authority Is summed IN In the state
ment that negotiations have now
reached point where practically no
progress Is occurring In any direction
Whether this means that RussIa's latest
answer does not make concessions
which are likely 90 bring about got
Element, II Is Impossible 10 say as the
delicate stage OF the negotiations
prompts the officials 20 withhold pre-
else details. Tho only statement ~ that
the negotiations are virtually at a
standstIll, ...........,.-.-..-..,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-25
DR.. Bower Delivers Interesting Lecture
On That Subject.

And eventually the earth will be one
great charnelhouse, declared DR.. A.
s. Bower as the cllnching argument
that cremation Of the dead should, and
shall. In time. take the place OF burial.
The doctor delivered an interesting,
forceful talk on this subject last even
ing az Unity hail. He pointed out the
many reasons which go to make Gre
nation preferable as a means Of dis
posing of the dead, preferable from
either the sentimental. the esthetic. the
economical or the sanitary standpoint
The rapidly growing population Of the
world, he said, makes II imperative that
the burial Of the dead shall eventually
be abandoned
The grave may be made beautiful
externally by flowers, the doctor point.
cd out, but at the same time there IL
always that uncanny thouhgt Of the
decaying bodies of our loved ones, Of
the cold earth around the coffin and
the darkness and gloom. But In Gre
nation there Is but the clean White
ashes remaining, and no such gloomy
associations.
DR.. Bower presented statistics to
prove that In time the whole surface
Of the earth will be covered with tomb
stones unless cremation becomes more
general Taking UP the sanitary side
OF the argument he said many epidem-
les Of disease were traceable directly
to cemeteries. Burial Is a relic Of bar
harism, he declared, and civilization
should abandon It at once,
Had | my way" said the speaker,
"the cemeteries would be all made into
public parks and the bodies they con-
tain would be reduced to ashes. No
more prolific source Of disease germs
exists In the world than these burial
grounds Of the dead.
Religious sentiment against crema-
tion il rapidly dying out said DR.
Bower 1T Ia becoming realized that
we must dsassoCiate the resurrection
with physical conditions. To contend
that cremation would interfere with
the resurrection of the body is to deny
the supreme power Of the Deity. Would
Il not be as easy at any rate, 90 resur.
rect the ashes Of the dead az the dust
10 which the bodies OF all must return
within comparatively short tlmeY
Could We not at least on this score,
take our chances with those martyrs
TO the cause Of religion who have been
burned at the stake2 Many OF the
worlds most noted dlvines have ex-
pressed the opinion that cremation IL
not Inconsistent with the teachings Of
religion"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-25
HOW A BULLDOG
L0OPED THE LOOP
Took Grip on the Spoke Of Wheel
And Went Sailing Down
The Street.
He STOPPED BIG ICE WAGON.
Maddened by Lashing From Drivers
Whip the Animal Tried to Throw
Vehicle Over His Ear.

An exhibition OF canine tenacity rare
even In bulldog, was witnessed on
Second South street at an early hour
this morning by an admiring throng
of bystanders.
A big ice wagon numbered around
the corner Of State street and some
oody's bun pup, ceiling in the pink OF
condition, darted briskly for the horses
heels. He met with the severest ohas-
,.sement the divers elghtfoot lash
could in1ict, receiving the singing blow
etralght across the nose. With the
true instinct Of his race, the dog growl-
ed hercely and went on barking at
the animals, while the driver quite as
perslstently lashed him with the raw
hide The dog took his punishment
stolcally The greater the injury, the
louder and more savagely he barked,
but never did any sound similar to a
yelp escape him. Finally, the driver
after awaiting n particularly favorable
opportunity, brought his whip down
with terrific force and It caught the
dog squarely lengthwise across his
body from the tip Of his nose to the
end of his stubby tall
This maddened the attacking force
beyond further dallying. AZ one well
measured bound, he buried his teeth in
n spoke Of the front wheel and there
he stuck The driver repeatedly pound
ed the dog over the head with the butt
o; HIS whip but could not shake him
or. Around and around went the wheel
as the driver whipped up his team.
bat the revolutions did not phase Mr..
Dog, He chung TO the spoke, his body
being twisted all out Of shape once in
n while, but his teeth sticking like
grim death to the wood.
BY this time, II had become a scIen-
tifc exhibition Of no little interest and
the crowd followed the wagon around
the corner Of Main street TO the Ken
yon hotel. There the driver stopped,
Instantly the bulldog released HIS hold
and proudly walked away, believing no
doubt that he had stopped the wagon
that he had made his opponent quit.
well, I'll be id" calculated the
driver, as the crowd fell excitedly to
discussing the sight, 81 am glad the
cuss didn't take hold OF the horses
legl"
The dog seized the spoke as the wag-
on was passing the Wilson, so Il was
for a fun 1875 yards that he displayed
such wonderful grit, Whose dog II
was, or where it came from. nobody
knew.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-25
Trial of the Mongolia.

Camden, N. j., Jan 25,--The steam.
ship Mongolia, built for the Pacific Mail
Steamship company, left the yards Of
the New York Shlp-Buildng company
today for Newport News on her trial
trip. The vessel, which IL 6i6 feet In
length, Is the largest ship Of her kind
over built in this country, During her
trial she will be commanded by Capt.
Randle Of the Ship Building company
After the tests she VIII proceed to New
York. The Mongolia In a sister ship OF
the Manchuria, recently launched, She
will ply between San Francisco, Ha-
wall, China and Japan. Among those
on board when she left today We're Pres
ident McCoursey May, Vice President
Chacles y. Hale and Supt. l.. d. Isoven,
tin, superintendent Of the New York
Ship Building company. and Prof.
Scheirweln. superintendent Of the Paci-
fc Mail Steamship company.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-25
GEO. NJ. SCOTT HERE.
Former Salt Laker Arrives From San
Francisco on q Visit.

Ex- Mayor George NJ. Scott arrived In
town Saturday evening, and will be
here for a few days. Jic Is now a clti-
zen of San Francisco, and Is well sat-
ished with his residence there, Mr.
Scott notes the great Increase OF ship
ping due to the expanding trade with
Alaska, Japan China, the Philippines
and the Sandwich Islands. This traffic
feature has assumed remarkable pro-
portions. and promises TO become much
larger yet. The city Of San Francisco
Ia growing very fast In other lines and
the whole state Is increasing rapidly I'm
population, rs there IL system Of coll
onisatIon obtaining In california that
is proving very effective In bringing
new residents into the state. Mr. Scott
says there is no further talk OF dividing
the state, and the entire commonwealth
appears TO be well unified,