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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-06
HEARD IN PASSING

A moneyiess I1atform does not nee essaT1ly 'neln moneyless carnpaicn. = Bridgeport Post.
 No man who bosses a nolittcal campaign should be proud of his job unIiI after election-and sometimes Union.
 With 149 murders last year and but seven executions Arkansas can scarce " secure the premium for either a law aoidlng or law enforcing state.-New Britain Herald.
 A Brooklyn man who fell off a bier into the East river nearly choketf to ueAth on usid os tohacca.t Here- after when contempatsng tumble he Will remove the chew.--Rsockton En- terprise.
 A presidential campaign always in- terferes more or less with business and for that reason 1t is especially gratifying to learn from the western farmers that wheat crop of 635. .OOO.. OOo bushels this season is expected Boston Globe.
 The state should be disfranchised. j, says Rev. pr. David c. Wylie. sneak Ing of Utah. Some parishioner or friend should give the reverend man a copy of the constitution of the United states. He will find that when he talks about disfranchising a state he talks nonsense. "No state. witho11+ its consent, can be deprived of it's equal sunrage in the senate."- -Hartford Courant. Y \ \
 Perhaps Mir Roots instructive re- marks about the tendency on the n41rt 0f public officials to agnore the Iin1ifa- HonS of law and the tendency ta. ip. nore and condone the transgression of such limits when done with good mo. lives may have referred to the auto cratic violations of all laws by the governor of Colorado and his Rough
 Rider chief of staff. .--Rridgepor Farmer.
 The man with patent swing scales 1 who stands on the East Side and at Coney Island offering to guess your weight or give you your cent back un, less they guess within three pounds ! are familiar sight. A citizen who is l rather proud of his deceptive appear ance tried 1t on the BoWery the other night. One hundred and fifty-sev, l en- guessed the fakir. With a s1i, l perior smile the victim, who knew that he did not weigh less than TIE pounds, sat in the scales. They reg istered 15S pounds. There was no use in kicking. He paid up, Later on he l c0nli,led ill q friend ''Yes,'' said the friend, 'and he put his hand on the frame of his machine, didn't he? And he kept it there all the time you were in the scales? Uh-huh! Well, there was a little spring just under his hand You weigh what he wants you to weigh. SeeY'-- BTnckton Enterprise.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-06


 The report that experimenters have found something that will offset the damage done by the boil weeviil if not destroy entirely this pest is good news for the Mexican boil weevil is set down as the most dangerous Insect pest of the present time. It is danked by the "San Jose scale" the "codling motha and host of busy workers. Resides these there are constant outbreaks of the Hessian fly, the cinch bug, the grassnopper, loeusts, cut worms and army worms. The ssbrOWn rOt0 de- stroyed last year about all the beeches in the south, the leaf curl'' effected $50,0O0 worth of damage, and pests in. numerable in the wake of almost every mentionable plant The root-fesding species of insects are no less active white, grubs, wire worms, root mag gots and root lice'' are among the de- stroyers. Whence all these busy par- asites in nature About all the gov ernment can do is to report their ac- tiyity, and leave the rest unsotved.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-06

sh1rtyreight replies received, hair or them bearing coronets and the names of people making splash in society. as we vulgar Americana term it. One application bore an impressive daub of purple wax with a coronet and straw berry leaves.
 Of the many applications received, my secretary decided on the dowager countess, as she seemed to offer the best opportunities, so that I found that for six shillings and nine pence, the cost of nay advertisement, the doors of the highest English society were flung wide open to welcome me. Next day the successful applicant, the dow ager countess, telephoned me.
 Americans visiting England criticise your nonhustling and unbusinesslike ways, but they ought to have dealings with some bill burdened, entail ridden aristocrats looking for paying guests and they would shed that idea. No Wall street hustler could have handled the telephone better than the dowager, and the way she stuck through subse- quent negotiations made me thank my stars and stripes that had no need to talk dollars to her every day. The dowager made me put away all my American clothes before she would consent to temporarily adopt me, and she expressed the wish that do the same with my American accent find the latter feat difficult, but during the week at Gcodwood and by hard practice have rubbed off the sharper corners of my objectionable twang, and the dowager gives me daily lessons after lunch on the yacht.
 So behold me this evening sitting on one of the smartest yachts in the Cowes roads, satisfied with everybody and everything, for am certainly get ting my moneys worth.
 Gracefully reclining in chair near by is one of the most beautiful debu- tantas of the season. She is the dowa- gers youngest daughter, and, being an impressionable bachelor with enough money to build up the shattered for tunes of this good old family-it is curious, but my cigar smoke makes succession of rings.
 Near by sits the dowager countess. Tn the glow of the setting sun she looks almost pretty again, and can believe the story that in the mid-Vtc- torian days she was an autocrat1c queen os beauty at whose frown men went tiger hunting in India and did other desperate things The stories must be true, for the dowager herself told me.
 Leaning over the dowager's chair stands her eldest son, the present earl. Her sweet old face is upturned to him, and I note that her hair is almost white. I know that the earl is in- dignant that his mother has taken ! paying guest, and she is defending her action on the ground that everybody does it. The earl snubs me subtly at
 every opportunity, but his lordship must be careful or I shall tell him thai could obtain as good accommodation ! elsewhere at cheaper rates. Besides, I'll no longer allow him to teach me ] bridge at stxuennv roints-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-06
4 SOCIAL EXPERIMENT.
How an American Bought His
 Way Into British Society.
BOARDED AT so MUCH PER WEEK.

His D3sc1Osure of Pnxchas4ng From
 Dovvagsr Countess For the Week.
 ly Sum of Faaey-tvvo Dollars an Tn-
 troductaon to Titled Persons = Be-
 came Acquainted Through am Ad.
 A cable dispatch recently published in New York stated that London so- ciety was considerably wrought up over the publication of letter in the London Daily Mail, signed American Visitor" The writer of this letter de clared that for the weekly sum of 10 guineas (about $52) he was being en- tertained by a dowager countess for the Goodwood and Cowes racing sea- son, the arrangement including intro ductions to titled persons, on condition that the boarder did not wear American clothes and hid his American accent.
 The London Daily Mail in cabling the letter to the New York American sub mftted documentary evidence establish ing the genuineness of the communica- tions mentioned in the letter.
 The letter is dated of Cowes, Isle of Wight, Aug. l, and here 1t is in parts
 I am in a chair under an awning on the deck of noble yacht that today makes unit in the great floating for est off CoWes, having dined we'll at a board graced by the presence of proba- bly, more real aristocrats than all my confreres in Wall street have ever seen. am mere moneyed American, of confessediy snobbish tendencies, and do not feel pleased with myself. Nor is my contempt for my fellow Amer leans diminished by the reelection that indirectly I shall pay for that dinner. On the contrary, the fact that have entertained, unknown to themselves, some of the proudest and bluest blood ed owners of pedigrees in Burke's is a tidbit lending pleasant flavor to my cigar. The latter, which suspect will cost me a dollar in my board bill, ex- tracted from a box bearing a coronet inscribed with motto that since Bol- ingbroke's days has been the watch word of generations of fighters
 I am the first paying guest to be re- ceived into the bosom of the distin- guished but impoverished family bear ing this crest. For something approach ing my chief clerks salary, S5,ooO, the dowager countess, my present land- lady. undertook to receive me for Good wood and Cowes, introducing me to a certain number of her titled friends.
 made the dowager countess's ac- quaintance through an advertisement in the board and apartments wanted'' column of the Morning Post announc- ing my ambition to mix In good Eng fish society, approximate terms to be stated. The dowager's was one of
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-06
Pveaehtnr on the Rnn.

The population of the north end of Kansas City shifted suddenly toward Third and Main streets about 9 o'clock the other night, and so great was the commotion that several policemen about headquarters ran for their coats and clubs and started in that direction, says the St. Louis Post Dispatch. In the center of the crowd was an old man preaching. Il had to get a@ au- dience some way" he explained when a policeman tapped him on the shoul- der. The preacher had tried in vain to gather few listeners about him, but, failing to do this, he started on the run up MaiE street; shouting gospel truths on the way. By the time he had run a block he had an audience of sev- eral hundred.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-06

As for the crops, cotton is easily tho leading factor, says Banker Clewa.
 The favorable character of the last government report indicates q yield of not less than 12,000,O0O bales. While cotton has shown big de- cline, the price is still high enough to give the grower good profit, and the lower cost will come in as boon to the manufacturer, who has been previously hampered by high cotton, high wages, competition between northern and southern mills, loss of export trade and legislative and un- ion restrictions. Cheaper cotton will do much towards restoring pros- perity in the cotton goods trade. Next to cotton, the corn crop is the most important element; in fact, It's value is considerably greater tI cot ton crop. and in tue fo pgs,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-06
Er-senator Davfa, Locust Trees.


 Bx,Senator Henry 6, Davis of West Virginia, the Democratic vice presi- dental nominee, seems never to have calculated against an age limit, says Melville Davidson Post in Harper's Weekly. One afternoon In the present summer he was walking through the grounds of his beautiful estate at the town of EIixins, where he resides. He was accompanied by one of bis superin- tendents, and the conversation ran upon the growth of trees. These North Carolina poplars," said the ex-senator, "grow rapidly, but they are poor trees at the end" "Why don't you try some harder treesf' responded the superin- tendent. II have thought about the locust" ex-senator Davis answered. Let me see, locust grows about twenty-five inches in twenty years" !" and then musingly, T think shall put some out"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-06

The only wise course for Canada is to set up for herself, to take her destinies into her own hands, to aban. don this attitude of dependence upon other countries on either side of the Atlantic for one of resoiute independence and sturdy self respect, says a staffWriter on a New York paper. Should the spirit she has shown during the past year find its natural and final expression in Dec laration of Independence, that will be the best possible outcome of her pres ent irritation with both Great Britain and the United States. Then let her adjust her fiscal policy on the same na- tional basis as Sir John Mcdonald proposed, bringing the artisan into neighborhood with the farmer through out her inhabited domain Let her cease to be predominatingly an agri- cultural country and develop her re- sources for manufactures to the ut most. Then she will be dependent upon no country for the staple arti- cles which lie at the foundation of national prosperity. Her domestic commerce will increase to an amount far in excess of any foreign commerce she can acquire, and will be, as Adam Smith showed, vastly more profitable to her people. Then she will be our friendly rival in the conquest of the continent for civilization, and we win have no source of dissension and dis pTte between us.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-06

~ .A- @ TT cae ER T As aaars tha s Tho Kind You Have Always Bought ''s,:'''' ,; l>1Azzs1
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-06
ShiIipnine wood Ia Ameraoan oara


 The Burlington railway has put in operation out of Kansas City on the Chicago "Eli' train two new dining cars. The cars are finished in what is known as madder wood, taken from the Philippine Islands, and are said to be the first two cars in operation in the United States in which this wood was used, says the Kansas City Times. Madder wood is of a dark brown color and shows its grain attractiyely. The two diners are lighted by acetylene gas, and instead of the usual lamps in the upper deck of the cars are lanterns cast from statuary bronze and fitted with art glass. Each car represents the expenditure of about S16,0o0. They are equipped with Haviland china, pur- rhased in Kansas City.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-06
Worth Considering.

You needn't experience the incon- venience of going into pawnshops any longer We will accommodate you with any amount by calling at 172 South Main street-in the store, not a pawnshop. All business strictly confi- dential. A full line of watches and jewelry always on hand. @
 We also do repairing of watches, clocks, jewelry, and engraving, and guarantee all our sales and work to give perfect satisfaction or money re- funded. Try us once and be convinced.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-06
Americans Are Agile.
 Not Profound Thinkers
Ry presiaent WILLIAM H. ? rAUcH of Brown unysrsi.,

By President WILLIAM H. P FAuNcH of Brown University
 HE American nation regarded by impartial observers t@s agile rather profound intellect Whatever
 N the goal arrive there while other people Ta<7NsA sidering how YET WE STILL STAND
 OUTSIDE THE REALM OF RIPENED WIS., DOM AND ASSURANCE AND STABLE CONVICTION
 The of time attached expedents than principles praferrng action thought and OUR GENERATION full of life and movement, APPEARS AT TIMES TO BE BOUND NOWHERE UNDER FULL SAIL" We have marvel inventors but few scientists of the first excellent writers of school books few authorities in educaon admirable preachers few theogans whose heard Europe su eposors of philosophy thinkers who rank with of lands where thought has ripen begins AGE IS STRENUOUS TO THE BREAKING POINT.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-04-26
PASSENGERS ARRIVED.

From the Orient. per s. 8. China,
April 2G.-TE. S. Benson, Mrs. r. s. Ben
son. Miss Bertha Berner, Hugo Bling,
Col. VIM. X. Bodley, Bryan Bradley
Miss Brooksmith, Harry Bubb, T. Blunt,
Mrs. 7. Blunt, W. NJ. Carruth. Walter
NJ. Castle, Mrs. Walter NJ. Castle, Mrs.
A. Clark, Mrs. A. II. Cockrill, Mrs. F.
Dorr, Miss c. Dorr. v. Dolliver, Ber-
nard Faymonville. Tosio Fujiwara.
Galen NJ. Fisher, Mrs. Galen NJ Fisher.
Miss Gradwell, G. II. Goddard, W. Won
Gonzenbach. Mrs. W. Won Gonzenbach
C. W. Guerin, Mrs. C. w. Guerin and
child, J. Gus;orf, Miss NJ. Hasegawa,
Victor Hermann, Tong Hon. G. KEN
ma, ID. Kennedy, Miss a. =. Klein, j. G..
Kniesche, l.. Kinder Won Knobloch,
l.! Wei Kong, King Sui Kong. Kwok
Wah Kwong, Master Hsu Kun wong,
u. Kusaba, G. G. Lacy, A. Lawles, Ho
l.eong, Tan Sui Ley, Rev. w. II. Lingle,
Mrs, W. II. Lingle, Miss d. Lingle. Miss
NJ. Lingle, 1t. Comdr. G. W. McElroy,
L. S. n, DR.. J. S. Mcfarland, A. C. Nc
Lachlan. Mrs. Clara A. Melvin, +. p.
Meserve. 10 Chi Ming, Bishop ID. "A.
Moore, Mrs. ID. II. Moore and maid
DR.. W. Muller, DR.. V. II. Murray. VIM.
Patterson, Miss Abbey b. Pearson. Mrs.
T. J. Perrine, +. Reichelt. Mrs. F.
Reichelt, Capt. J. II. Russell, NJ. T.
Sandal, DR.. II. X. Shumaker, Mrs. IL.
X. Shumaker, Maj. ID. Wilmot Sitwell
L. b. Skottowe, Mrs. J. +. Smith
Frank W. Spicer. Mrs. Leland Stanford
maid and valet, w. X. Tucker, A. G.
Morey Weale, w. d. White, Mrs. W.
Is. White, Miss Wilkinson, c. W. Yale
zee Shi vi, Tsu King Yuan, Tsu ShaG
Yung.
From Kau, Kona and Maui ports. pei
stmr. Mauna Loa, April 26.-Fnom
Kau: Mrs. G. II. Brown, Miss Long
more. Mrs. Pinau. From Kona: NJ. f
Scott. Major Purdy, Miss Medeiros, T.
n. Edwards, FIR. James. W. A. Wall
Thos. Kelley, Mrs. Marcallino ant
child From Maui: 4. Kaiser, l.,
Barkhausen. Hon. j. l.. Kaulukou. Mr.
and Mrs. Aoki, Nakashima.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-04-26
or Want Column See Page Six
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
First Circuit, Territory Of Hawaii. In
Probate; at Chambers. In the Matter
Of the Estate of Samuel C Allen, de-
ceased. Before Judge Geo. d. Gear.
Order of Notice of Petition for Allow.
ance of Final Accounts and Discharge
in This Estate. On reading and filing
the petition and accounts of Bathsheba
NJ. Allen, NJ. p. Robinson, ]. o. Carter
and p. Muhlendorf, executrix and exec
utors of the Estate Of Samuel G. Allen,
deceased, wherein they ask to be al.
lowed $436,7S9.2S and they charge
themselves with s436,7S9.2S, and ask
that the same may be examined and
approved, and that final order may
be made of distribution Of the property
remaining In their hands to the per.
sons thereto entitled, and discharging
them and their sureties from all fur.
Their responsibility as such executrix
and executors, II Is ordered that Mon.
day, the 9Th day Of June. A. d. 1904. at
9 o'clock a. m. before the Judge of said
court at the court room OF the said
court at Honolulu, Island Of Oahu, be
and the same hereby Is appointed as
the time and place for hearing said
petition and accounts, and that all per
sons interested may then and there
appear and show cause, II any they
have, why the same should not be
granted. and may present evidence as
to who are entitled to the said prop
erty. And that notice Of this order, In
the English language, be published In
The Evening Bulletin newspaper
printed and published in Honolulu, for
three successive weeks, the last pub.
LEGATION to be not less than two weeks
previous to the time therein appointed
for said hearing.
Dated at Honolulu, this 25th day OF
April 1904
'f''-' Judge of the Circuit Court of the
First Circuit.
Attest: VIM. r. SIMS,
Clerk Of the Circuit Court
of the First Circuit.
27i9-Apr. %; May 2, 0. 16. 81.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-04-26
MAUNA lOA'S REPORTS

The steamer Mauna Loa arrived
from kau. Kona and Maui ports at
ass o'clock this morning with the fol.
lowing cargo: 1887 bags II. a. Co. SUI
gar. 5000 bags II. sugar, 80 head cat.
tie. 10 calves, 81 bundles bananas, Is
cases honey, 10 cases pears, 20 kegs
butter, so bags coffee, 3o5 bags ava,
II bags ginger, II crates grapes, IL
bags peanuts, . crates chickens, .
crates dry fish and $50 packages sun.
dries.
The following sugar Is reported at
Hawaii ports ready for shipment: Pu'
naluu. 1900 bags: Honuapo, 50; Homo
kaa, 5000; Kukuihaele. 10000 bags.
Purser Conkling reports as follows:
The steamer Kauai was weatherbound
at Honokaa. throughout the trip we
have had rough seas and strong winds
At Punaluu the work was greatly ham.
pered by the weather. At HOnuapt
better work was done and the ware
house cleaned out.
Both Honuapo and Pahala mills arr
grinding to their full capacity. There
is plenty Of water at both places.
It was rough at Kailua during oul
stay yesterday. several waves break
irg over the end of the wharf. Plent.
of rain on Hawaii.
1
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-04-26
STOLE TOWELS FROM
SILENT BARBER ROOMS

The silent Barber Shop on Hotel
street near Fort was yesterday after.
noon robbed by a customer who did
the job in pretty cool manner. The
man came into the shop and told Joe
Fernandez. who was in charge, that he
wanted a bath. He was a rather dc
Gently dressed man, seemingly slightly
under the influence of liquor. Fernan
deZ showed him into one of the shops
bathrooms In the back.
The stranger had not been In the
bath very long before he began to con
duct himself In an unseemly manner
and with much uncalled.for hilarity
He slapped the sponges and soap all
over the walls, splashed the water and
accompanied the performance with vo
cal efforts Of his own composition. The
result was that the barber of course
concluded that his hilarious customer
was full. Fernandez told him to
stop the racket and was told in return
to go to very unpleasant place.
A few minutes later the boy who at.
tends the bathrooms was called to the
front of the shop. This seemed to have a
soothing effect on the gay bather, for
all the noises stopped and the bath
room became quiet as the grave. When
the boy came back he took look into
the room, when he found, to his sur
prise. that the stranger had sobered
up very suddenly and had vanished
through the back window. So also had
a number of fine towels. The matter
has been reported to the police.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-04-26

Paris. April S.-The Herald's Euro
pean edition publishes the following
from its military expert:
There is more and more confirma-
ton Of the fact that the Russians,
abandoning opposition TO the march
OF the japanese toward the mouth OF
the Yalu, have evacuated the lower
part OF the left bank Of the river with
out giving battle and have only left in
touch on the right flank of General
Kuroki some strong parties of Cos
sacks.
Thus becomes plain the plan Of
General Kuropatkin, which consists In
gaining time and drawing towards him.
II 1t lends itself to this maneuyer, the
japanese army which is now deployed
from Pingyang to ANU and beyond.
1T is announced that the Russians
have occupied in force Fengwangcheng,
having only left some attachments as
guards, from Antung to Kailieutin and
above this point. 1t appears therefore
that the defense which is being pre-
pared there will not be very serious,
but 1t Is certain that General Kuroki
is endeayoring to cross the Yalu with
his army to penetrate into Manchuria
by the Picking road.
I'VE may be permitted to doubt
whether they have well counted the
difficulties Of all kinds which are al
ready offered In Korea to the advance
of g1ins in the water-sOakpd roads The
wagons which are bringing up all kinds
OF supplies become mired every in
slant. These guns, drawn by six little
horses OF no great size or bulk. only
advance with despairing slowness. Now
as Korea hardly produces enough rice
TO feed its inhabitants, 1t is necessary
that the armies which are operating
there be followed by everything that IL
necessary for the subsistence Of the
men and animals.
"There Is also another consideration
OF nature to make General Kuroki
hesitate about taking the offensive by
entering directly the region where are
gathered almost all the Russian
forces. This is that such an attack
in front would only have a chance OF
success by being prepared through
previous or simultaneous movements
executed on the west or southwest OF
the enemy's position"
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-04-26
HOW BAITLEShlPS SANK At
CHEMULPO
CONTINUED from Page ~

the French ship and fred the Sungari,
which burned through the night"
or the war generally Bishop Moon,
who commanded Union regiment In
the Rebellion. said: "The laps will
lick the boots off the Russians. 1ney
are as good on land as they are at sea.
The Japs take nothing for granted
They move with precision, and their
opponents are disorganized.
II have unlimited faith In the Jap
anese. They are fighting for what
America stands for-liberty. civil and
religious, and fair trade. Japan repre-
sents Christian principles; Russia SUI
perstition."