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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-12

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-12
OAHU REGISTRATION
BY PRECINCTS

Yesterday the Board of Registration
made up the precinct lists of registra-
ton on this island. The numbers are
given below.
With 500 voters the 9th of the 4th
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-12
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The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-09
TO RENEW OLD MISSION.
San Juan Capistrano VIII Live Again
After Long Years of Silence.

All who have heard of the picturesque
old Franciscan Missions of California
will be interested to learn that San
Juan Capistrano, the most poetic of all
these ruined structures, which contrib
ute so much to the foreign look of "our
Italy" is soon again to be made the
centre of religious activity, and that
after nearly a century of neglect its
buildings are to be restored to their
original estate.
This mission is on the railway line
between Los Angeles and San Diego,
and by reason of being visible from
the railroad is to Eastern travellers per-
haps the best known of all California
missions, except Santa Barbara and
San Gabriel. which are among the
regulation sights for visitors to South
ern California. With the restoration
of San Juan Capistrano and the re-
sumption of residence there by the
Franciscan Brotherhood, it, too, will
no doubt soon become a tourist resort
The first year of the American In
dependence saw work begun upon this
ancient edifice in what was then vast
wilderness, inhabited only by Indians.
The site is in lovely, sequestered val
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-09
THE LOVE OF ALARIC.

Beneath the outflung branches of a
mighty oak tree, a giant who had
stood sentinel in that lonely dip on
the wOlds for twice three hundred
years, two men were standing, their
figures made more or less distinct by
the rays of a big, conical lantern of
antique pattern that the elder of the
two carried in his gnarled and blood
less fingers, a figure strangely akin
to the giant tree beneath which he
stood.
An aged man was Zachary Doy, his
back bent by years of hard labor such
as few of the modern generation of la
borers know; man who had been an
experienced farmland, while the man
beside him, his master, was still a
pulling infant.
The old fellow set down his lantern
on the iron-bound earth. His quaver-
ing voice stabbed the silence. "Now,
do zee harken unto me, Master Alaric.
he said slowly. I've served zee faith
full, you and your feyther afore zee,
for nigh on fifty year, and l tell zee
master, that what zee do purpose for
to do is again all right and reason.
This yere oak tree-the Kingscote
Oak, as all the countryside do know
her for to be-ha' bin here as a land
mark and pride for longer than us
poor souls can reckon. To cut her
down do mean, as l be right well as
sured, that Kingscote luck will fail
WI 'un. If so be"
Alaric Kingscote broke in upon his
garrulity with a forced laugh.
IF Kingscote luck could fall lower
than it has, Zachary" he said bitterly.
you need have little fear that |
would touch bark with axe. Now, hear
me, old friend. This tree represents
the last thing upon the farm that can
bring in the money | must have to
tide over the bad times in store. The
merchants have offered me two hun
dred pounds for the tree. There's only
one rotten limb upon it. They'll
come tomorrow with their carts and
take it away" He laid his hand upon
the old mans shoulder. "Get you
home to bed, Zachary" he added gent
ly. "You can do nothing here. IT'S
9 o'clock now. By midnight, with
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-09
TO RENOVATE WICKER
CHAIRS.

To renovate a shabby wicker chair
first cleanse the wicker thoroughly, US
ing a scrubbing brush and plenty of
soap and water. When dry, the chair
can be vanished, or it can be greatly
improved with a coating or two of
green stain.
For the seat make a cushion of green
linen or a pretty greenish cretonne.
Another cushion for the back may be
liked, and is easily made. Make it of
the same material as the seat cushion
and of bag shape, longer than wide.
1t may be fastened to the chair by
means of tapes sewed at the top and
bottom.
If a loose cushion be preferred, a
pretty yellow linen would look nice
and contrast we'll with the green
Make the case slip fashion, so that it
can be easily washed. An unbleached
calico bag will be good enough for the
down with which the cushions are
filed.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-09

given my infant son to my younger
brother James, who will bring up
my son as his own.
Thus it may come to pass that the
descendants of Nigel, my son, may be
passed over in the right Of succession
by the descendants of Richard, the
eldest son of my younger brother
James, who stands well In the eye OF
Cromwell the regicide and renegade.
"And that this be true, and that
Nigel, supposed younger son OF James
Kingscote, of Kingscote Manor, be
really the eldest son of Nigel Kings
cote, eldest son of Alaric Kingscote,
father of Nigel and James and there
fore heir to the Manor of Kingscote,
its hereditaments, messuages, and all
that do thereto appertain, and his
seed hereafter him, if so be there
should be any, do most solemnly
swear and protest in the presence of
witnesses. To which l do set my
hand and seal this sixteenth day Of
March, one thousand six hundred anil
forty-seven.
Signed: Nigel Kingscote, in the
presence of Rupert Mainwaring,
Knight Banneret of Mainwaring Hall,
in the County of Berkshire, and
Anselm Wolf, Priest"
The parchment fluttered crisply
from the girls nerveless hands.
'Damaris," cried Alaric hoarsely-
"Damaris!" Coherent speech he could
not find
The girl raised her head.
at is true-It is truei" she said
brokenly. 1--WE, father and |. are the
usurpers! Kingscote Manor is yours,
and we are-paupers!"
mot paupers, dearest, but partners"
answered Alaric, and in his eyes there
was that which told her how Kingscote
love stood wind and weather as
steadily as Kingscote Oak.
Squire Kingscote now sleeps with
his fathers in the little Berkshire
churchyard. But ere he died his de-
clining years were frightened by the
generous forgiveness of "the undesir-
able poor relation"
A young and sturdy sapling oak now
fourishes on the spot where stood
the ancient tree true symbol OF the
lasting power of Kingscote luck and
Mngscote love.-Answers.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-09

luck, the Kingscote Oak will be down. "
The old fellow looked wistfully in
to the handsome face of his young
master.
Master Alaric," he said hoarsely.
I've fifty-fve pun, three shillin' and
fi'pence 'apenny laid away in hole
in the floor o'my cottage If so be as
that'll save the Kingscote Oak,
why
Go home with you Zachary" Broke
in the young man roughly, though his
roughness hid an emotion almost too
deep for any words-"Go home, and
God bless you, old friend"
Zachary thrust his roughened hand
across his eyes. Without another
word, strangely pathetic, bowed old
figure, he turned and shambled off
across the field toward the stile into
the lane that led to the little thatched
cottage that had been his home for
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-09

In prehistoric days Vesuvius was
probably twice as high, the top having
been blown off centuries before the
eruption that destroyed Pompeii. Since
the year 1851 Vesuvius has never been
wholly at rest. In that year $4,000 lives
were lost The clouds of steam that
came from the rush of water into the
hot mass below the surface condensed
and fell in boiling rain that scorched
everything with which it came in con-
tact. The very sea drew back the skirts
of its dark blue robe and then swept
forward again far beyond its old limits.
The last of the great convulsions be-
fore the recent one occurred in 1872
Then, like this one, there was a great
lava flow, together with throwing up of
burning rock and the fall of ashes upon
the surrounding country.
Vesuvius is one of group of similar
mountains in the Mediterranean Sea,
it's comrades being AStna. Stromboli
and Vultano, which last gave the name
to all mountains of this kind That, in
turn, was called after Vulcan, the god
who made the armor for the fighting
deities of the ancient world and forged
the very thunderbolts of Jove himself.
His workshop was under Mount Etna.
There the inhabitants of the hillsides
heard him shaping great masses of
iron with his terrible hammer stroke
while the nameless slaves of the forge,
dimly imagined creatures of that old
day, blew the gigantic bellows and held
great bars in place, while the master
worked. The Greeks with even their
learning, did not inquire into the scien-
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of the mountain; they knew what the
awful roar of those volcanic mountains
meant And our wise men, with their
figures and books, know little of what
is going on in the fiery caverns under
the earth's thin crust.
Nature soon heals her scars. AL
ready, we are told in dispatches, spots
of green have appeared on the black
ened sides of Mount Pelee, and it will
not be very long before the olive and
the vine and the clustering villages
will find their way back again to the
slopes of Vesuvius.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-09

ley, which, beginning back in the can
yons of the coast range, winds among
grassy knolls and great treeless hills
out to the Pacific, upon which it opens,
three miles west of the mission. With
the aid OF the Indians, over whom the
padres exerted both temporal and spir-
itual dominion, the Franciscans estab-
lished here the most pretentious of all
the California mission churches. In
stead of being constructed of the GUS
tomary adobe brick of the country, 1t
was built of stone, laid out in the form
of Latin cross, with great, cloistered
quadrangle adjoining. Here, besides
administering to the spiritual welfare
of the Indians and gathering them into
the fold of the church, the fathers set
them to the care and the cultivation
of the land, which yiefyed great wealth
OF cattle. sheep, grfin, grapes and
olives.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-09

so many years. He never once looked
back. For a few seconds Alaric King
scote stood looking after him, then
with a strangely fierce gesture, the
young fellow flung off his rough tweed
coat, removed the Cardigan waistcoat
that covered the breadth OF his chest
and turned up the sleeves OF his
coarse flannel shirt.
At the foot of the oak lay the wood
mans huge axe that was to be the in
strument of death, that was to cut
short the growth of centuries.
Alaric Kingscote swung the great
weapon aloft, and the cold starlight
ran along the shining steel. Like
some Viking warrior of old-like the
re-embodiment of one of his Saxon
tool of destruction with a blow that
gashed deep into the corrugated skin
of the oak. The doom of the Kingscote
Oak had been proclaimed.
AS he stood braced up for the second
stroke. the bulging sinews of his fore
arm responding to the generous rise
of chest and thigh muscles, a curious
sound from behind him caused him
to swing round with faint cry. Then
lie lowered the axe with amazing gen.
tleness.
Another figure had appeared upon
the scene-the figure of a woman, clad
in a cloak of fur that hid the contour
of her form.
"Damaris." The word fell from the
young mans lips like a caress.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-09
Destroyed by an Earthquake

On the morning of December 8, 1872,
all without warning, came a great catas-
trophe. While the church was crowded
with kneeling worshipers a shock of
earthquake visited the valley and top
pied the great stone tower over upon
the roof, crashing through which II
buried the congregation beneath the
wreckage of beams, tiles and stones,
and upward of forty human beings
lost their lives in the twinkling of an
eye. This earthquake ranks in sever
ity with that of Charleston, in 1886.
SO great was the disaster that, although
the mission continued to be conducted
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-09
THE OLD WELL IN THE COURTYARD.

for twenty-five years longer, no at
tempt seems to have been made by the
padres to restore the church edifice,
and it and its adjoining buildings and
cloisters have remained to this day an
imposing and beautiful ruin. Touched
gently by Times hand, dignified in out
line and rich in color, it is replete with
subjects for the artist and is the ad-
miration of every traveller. With the
restoration of the buildings the in
tention is to create here a college for
the priesthood as at Santa Barbara,
and TO make of San Juan Capistrano
an important factor in the work of the
Roman Catholic Church in Southern
California.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-09

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The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-09
THB VESUVIAN TERROR.
Vivid Description of Great Erup.
fion Which Rivals Pom
peii's Destruction.
The Famous Italian Novelist, Marion
Crawford, Tells of the Terrors OF
the Big VolcanO-tiistOry of For
mer EruptionS.

The whole world looked on, awe
struck at the recent fierce outbreak or
stupendous and devastating force in
the Bay of Naples. The eruption OF
Mount Vesuvius is believed to be the
most destructive since the days of Pom
peii, A. D., 79.
The whole story of the eruption of
1906 is a sorrowful tale of stricken vic
tins, devastated vineyards, ruined
homes and terror-stricken, flying peo-
pie. and it is hard to realize that the
same scenes have been enacted there so
many times before
Plny. the noted ancient historian,
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the year 70 in a series of letters to
Tacitus. This letter described a dark
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crater of the mountain and from this
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extending sixteen miles away. The
light ashes of the fire from Nesuvius
descended like snow upon Pompeii,
burying it 10 great depths. Hercu-
laneum was drowned in a sea of vol
canic mud.
Those who have read the letters of
Pliny find similarity in the description
written by the noted novelist, Marion
Crawford There is probably no other
American living who is SO well ac-
quainted with conditions as they exist
in Italy. He has taken up his per-
manent abode in the Italian hills. The
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-09
Smoke Two-Miles High.

IAN enormous volume of black smoke
rises TO a height of two miles above
the crater" he wrote. "Incandescent
masses of stone are thrown up 5000
feet. A continuous southeasterly wind
carries the ashes over Naples, which
is so completely enveloped in darkness
that for three days our communications
by sea have been cut OFF.
"Fissures have opened far below the
cone, emitting many streams of lava,
one of which has completely destroyed
the town of Boscotrecase which had
10000 inhabitants. Another has reached
the outskirts of Tore del Greco. Others
have destroyed thousands of acres of
fertile cultivated land, with farmhouses
and stock.
The great cone of Vesuvius col
lapsed with awful laundering and
flames, and the cable railway, the OBJ
servatory and the large hotel near 1t
were all totally destroyed. The lava
carried vast masses Of burnt stone and
sulphur on It's surface like dross on
melted lead. and nothing was visible
toward Boscotrecase but endless acres
of dark scoriae. broken here and there
by the greenish curling smoke Of sui
phur.
AT one point we found a great pine
tree. torn up by its roots and turned
TO black charcoal the air was almost
unbreathable; the heat intense. The
faces OF the people who crowded upon
the edge of the arrested stream eX-
pressed terror of exhaustion from re-
cent panic.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-09
vESUvIUs IN ERUPTION.

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Italian have been pictured by him in
stories which have made him famous.
In his cabled description to the New
York Times Crawford stated that the
recent eruption OF Vesuyius had been
grumbling for many weeks before the
outbreak which did the incalculable
damage.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-09

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Feeble Attempts of Man Useless.

When the stream of fire threatened
Boscotrecase soldiers dug a wide ditch
across its patch in the hope of divert
ing its course. but the molten stream
advanced like a colossal serpent of fire,
turning its head 10 the right and left
as a snake does. but keeping its general
direction toward the fated town. 1t
was not till it reached the first house,
sending up great showers of sparks,
that the people finally fed for their
lives.
81 saw men. women and children, and
infants whose mothers carried them at
the breast or in their aprons. Dogs,
too. and cats were on the carts, and
sometimes even chickens, tied togeth-
er by the legs. and piles of mattresses
and pillows. all white with dust under
the lurid glare. We ourselves could
hardly breathe"
This dispatch corresponds exactly In
detail to Plinys letters. The same
flaming mountain and shaking earth
the same sitting smoke and ashes, the
same terrifying darkness and the same
helpless. distracted crowd stretching
vain hands to their gods for succor.
Originally Vesuvius was in the form
of a single cone. Later eruptions have
broken down the southern side of the
original crater, leaving the northern
semi-circle, which Is called Monte
A smaller central cone had
grown up within the ancient ruin. II
Is this inner cone that had its top
blown off. Before the recent eruption
he height of the mountain was about
I.000 feet.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-09
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The Elbert County tribune., 1906-12-20

The case is one of the most per
picking and mysterious ever known
in the history of the state.
About two years ago MIR. Wait, now
in the COS. and always a man of
and to complain of stomach trouble.
He lost his appetite and suffered from
nausea. He was treated by the fam
lily physician, DR.. Snodgrass, but did
not improve. Last summer he went
to his country place on the lake with
Mrs. Wait and the servants. Rev. Mr..
Clements and his wife were with them
part of the time.
They had many visitors and 1t is
recalled by one of the maids that
scarcely anyone who ate dessert at
the lake cottage escaped illness. Tho
boy of all work became so sick that
he had to be sent home. moaning with
pain. Anna Flynn and Margaret Hart
nett, maid and cook. were so pros
trated they could not work.
Mr.. Waits condition finally became
so alarming that 1t was decided to
return to Auburn. He grew steadily
worse. The suggestion was made that
the sewerage of the house might be
defective and responsible for the
strange malady which afflicted the en-
tire household. Plumbers and drain
filters were called and all the pipe
ripped out. Not the slightest trace of
sewer gas was discovered.
Suspected Ptomaine Poisoning.
Then came the theory of ptomaine
poisoning and to treat this more sue
cessfully Mr.. Wait was taken to the
Auburn City hospital and placed under
special treatment.
The climax came one Sunday night,
when the elder Wait was returned to
his home. The several witnesses who
were sufferers as well, are not specific
as to the exact date. but Margaret
Hartnett, the cook; Mrs. Josephine
Watkins, the mothe-ly old washer
woman. and Catherine Walsh. the gen.
eral utility woman, place 1t as six
weeks ago.
When a sponge cake was baked the
sugar used in the frosting was taken
from a box in the pantry where three
boxes of sugar were kept-the pulver-
lied nearest the door, the granulated
next and the brown sugar next to
that
The old colored woman prepared
some hard sauce for a pudding. She
used the pulverized sugar. Margaret
Hartnett, the cook. used the granula.
ted sugar for the frosting which she
beat up with eggs.