The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-06-02
Town. TALK
By The Man About Town.

Record. He was i'm the war from the
beginning to the end and did some ex-
tremely creditable work
After the war he went across Russia
and Siberia by rail, the Siberian rail-
road being then i'm it's last stages of
construction and he was zone of the very
first to cross Siberia by it, on his
return he passed through Honolulu,
his third visit to this place.
Since 1901 he has been editor of the
Red Book, a short story magazine.
which he built up into a handsomely
paying property. He is the author of a
number of books which include Wizard
of Wall Street" Reuben and Cynthia
at the Worlds Fair" "War i'm the East
with the History of China, Japan and
Korea" Free Silver i'm Mexico" THE
War With Spain" "Our New Possess
sions, and Martinique ana The
Worlds Great Disasters"
White is original in his ideas inn
mune to physical discomfort in carry
ing them out, an extensive traveller and
ana entertaining writer
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y friend of mine suggests that per-
haps the reason Morgan didn't have
any better success in his negotiations
with the Secretary of the Pacific Inter
Club Yacht Association was that in
the correspondence he kept spelling the
secretary's name wrong. The secre-
tary is r. r. rHommedieu a very en-
thusiastic yachtsman, a newspaperman
whom a number of newspapermen here
know. Morgan kept addressing him
as Mr. Hammedieu, which every,
Frenchman knows is not his name.
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There are about sixty human remains
in the Office of the Board of Health, and
the department officials are naturally
anxious to get rid of them. They are
not the ordinary kind of remains or
else they would have been disposed of
long ago. They are ashes, i'm jars, and
all the disposal wanted is that rela-
tives come and carry them away. They
are what is left Of sixty odd deceased
who have been cremated. After the
cremation the little pile of ashes is
always gathered up and placed I'm
Jar and sealed up ana kept subject to
the orders of relatives II hapDens
that i'm about sixty cases the relatives
have not placed enough value upon the
ashes to call for them. hence slowly
accommodating rows of jars, each one re-
presenting a late lamented, and all Of
them gradually eucroaching upon the
office suace until their room is begin
ming to be needed. one of these DAVIS
the office force of the department will
organize a wholesale funeral and get
rid of the whole lot
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Here is an advertisement from San
Francisco paper of a few DAVIS after
the fire: Bugs. Lice, FIeas in San
Francisco Have All Been Burned ont by
the Fire. But Are SUN i'm the Business
Across the Bay The Blankety Bug Des-
troyhg Powder Can be Had in oak
land"
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have wondered often why George
Davis. the local attorney howls so
loudly when addressing the court or the
jury. Time and time again | have
heard his voice filling the corridors of
the Judiciary Building; when first l
heard the terrible noise was alarmed
fearing that a fight was i'm progress:
but as time yhent ON grew accus-
toned to the loud tones thrown out
by Davis. But. as [ remarked before.
| have been at a loss to know the rea-
son for the bowling and now [ know
While reading a magazine article on
teresting bit of advice; il was given by
a law professor to his class: IF YOU
have the law on your side, stick to