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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-27

cipals, he says: ION the evening of
October II, was on the bridge with
the second officer. when suddenly the
dark night was as light as day, and
an immense meteor shot, comparative
ly slowly at first, because the direction
was so very perpendicular to our posi-
ton, then more rapidly. towards the
earth. It's train of light was an inn
broad electric-colored band,
gradually turning to orange and then
to the color of molten metal. When
the meteor came into the denser at
mosphere close to the earth it appear
ed, as nearly as it is possible to de-
scribe it, like molten mass of metal
being poured out. 1t entered the water
with a kissing noise close to the ship,
and the consequence, had it struck our
ship, would have been total annihila
ton without doubt and not a soul left
to tell the story of another mysterious
loss of a vessel in every way fitted to
undertake the voyage. I am of opinion
that some such cause must be attribute
ed to losses SO mysterious that neither
seamanship, engineering, nor ordinary
theory can explain them
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-27
WHAT A WOMAN EATS.

What a woman eats when she does
her own ordering has been a subject
of many jokes among masculine cpl
cures, but the joke loses it's zest when
it comes to the New York woman;
for, in the majority of Instances, she
also, she eats with the discrimination
of the crankiest of club men. Like a
man, she does not hesitate to send for
the head waiter, or even the steward,
if matters do not go to her liking.
without exception, the American
woman is the epicure of the feminine
world" says George w. Sweeney, vice.
president of the New York Hotel Mems
Association 1.-THE women of any
foreign country are satisfied with a
smaller selection and simpler dishes
than are the American women, al
though Madam America, up to date.
selects healthful combinations" And
this is correct. The day of lobster
salad. a glass of milk, and a coup st.
Jaoue has passed for the modern
woman. although her country sister
NAV order such fatal spread. Bouil-
lon poached eggs, dry toast or gluten
bread. fruit salads, baked apples, and
crane fruit are favorites for midday
luncheon la femme. The average
woman, when she dimes alone, chooses
foods which will make her thin or
stout. as the case may be, or she is
looking out for her complexion. This
change has come about only within
the last year or SO, for it has not been
so long since women were noted Tor
ordering outlandish things to eat, and
thew always ordered wine or liqueur
of some kind, while now it is rare to
find anything but tea, coffee, Or choc-
olate on an order given at any leading
hotel in the metropolis by woman.
-Leslie's.
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MIR. Dooley on japanese Friendship


ted in with ye're hivenly binivolence we
wud've shook Rooshyan down FIR much
iv her hateful money. Now we must
prove our affection with acts. 1t is
our intintion to sind a fleet to visit
ye're shores, partickly San Francisco,
where we understand tn school sys-
TEN is well worth studyin'.'
And there We ARE, Hinnissy. TIL
frindship ceminted two years ago with
blood an beers is busted. I don't
know whether anything will happen.
Hogan thinks so, but / amt sure. Tn
Prisidint has announced that rather
thin see wan Octoginaryan Jap pre-
vented firm 1arnin' his a-bee-abs he
will divastate San Francisco with fire,
flood, dinnymite, an personalities. But
San Francisco has had a pretty good
bump lately an wud hardly turin
over in it's sleep FIR an invasion, and if
tn Prisidint wants thin to enther tn
schools he'll have to load thin in a
cannon an shoot thin in.
Wudden't it be tn grand thing
though if they licked us an we handed
thin tn Ph'lippeens!''
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THE SWIMME Err.

sinewy youth, bull-necked, bold
eyed,
Was cleaving crystal Seine,
Ere yet it's unpolluted tide
Had caught the city's stain.
Swiftly the limpid current flowed,
And sweet with hawthorn bowers.
Where dark against the sunset showed
A ring of fortress towers.
Thereat the swimmer, half in sport.
A furious gesture made:
"A curse upon the dingy fort
That casts so dark a shade,
BY every stone in yonder walls
And Louis's heart I swear
The day that old rats-castIe falls
I'll be the foremost there
He spake. and from the rapid stream.
A dripping athlete, rose,
And glittering in the western CLEAN
Did on his threadbare clothes;
One careless, scornful pebble cast
AT the grim sentinel;
Laughed as the fellow scowled: and
passed
Ere the first shadows fell.
ana that was Danton. Many a Nav
The hawthorn thickets stirred.
I'LL on a certain summer day
He kept his boyish word.
Then with all Paris at his heel
The burly tribune came,
And tower by tower the tall Bastil,e
Sank in a sea of flame.
Enough his triumphs and his crimes
Our children's primers tell.
For. thrown by Fate on violent times
He learned their ways too well.
Five years his meteor spirit blazed
Those darkened heavens through.
Then perisheu in the storm he raised
And by the sword he drew.
For "Blighted be the name,'' he cried.
IF only France be freei''
So let the land for which he died
His constant mourner be-
And should her graceless sons forget
The sacred trust they hold.
God send she find a Danton yet
As stubborn and as bold.
Edward Sydney Tylee.
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STEAM LAUNDRY

MERCHANT AND ALAKEA SITS.
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Mr.. Dooley's latest essay discusses
"a Broken Friendship 1t is in the
philosophers richest vein of wit and
humor, as the following extracts prove:
We've sure to have war with tn
Japs inside iv two years." said Mr..
Dooley. Hogan says we've got to fight
FIR tn supremacy iv tn Passyfic. Much
fightin' I'd do FIR an ocean, but havin'
taken tn Phflipeens, which ARE a
blamed nuisance, an tn Sandwich ISL
ands, that're about as vallyble as
toy balloon to a horseshoer, we've got
to grab lot iv tn surroundin' damp
ness to protect thin. That's wan rea-
son why we're sure to have war. An
other reason is that tn Japs want to
sind their little forty-five-year-old chill
dher to be iddycated in tn San Fran
cisco public schools.
'Wud We liver have thought twas
possible that any wan in this country
cud even talk iv war with thin delight
full. cunning little Oryentals? Why, it's
less thin two years since we hollered
with joy whin a Rooshyan admiral put
his foot through tn bottom iv man.
iv-war an sunk it. An how we cheer
ed in tn theayter to see tn cute little
sojers iv tn Mickydoo mowin' down tn
brutal Rooshyan moojiks with masheen
guns. An fin'lly whin tn Japs had
gone a thousand miles into Rooshyan
territory an were about busted an
ayether had to stop fightin' or not have
car fare home, out worthy President
jumped to tn front an cried: Boys
stop it. It's gone far enough to satisfy
tn both iv ye.'
Day afther day tn pa-apers come
out an declared that tn defeat iv
Rooshya was judgment iv tn Lord
on tn czar. Hogan talked about naw-
thin else. They were a wonderful
little people. They cud shoot straight
er an oftener thin amy other nation.
A Jap cud march three hundred miles
a day FIR eight days with nawthin' to
eat but gumdhrop. They were high
~ clVVyllzeQ. lb was an Old clVVyl1Za-
ton but not tainted be age.
Their treatment iv women put thin
on a higher plane thin ours Cinchries
ago, befure tn higher iddycation iv
women was dhreamed iv in this coun-
thry, tn poorest man in Japan cud sind
his daughter TO tea house, which is
tn same as our female s.n.ls les
where she remained till she graduated
as tn wife iv some proud noble iv the
old Samuri push. An even in tn wan
branch iv art that westhren civvyliza-
ton is supposed to excel in they had
US beat miles. They were tn great
est liars in tn wurrld an formerly
friends iv tn Prisidint
THAT was the beginnin' iv tn end iv
tn frinship between tn two great
nations. A well-known fi-nancier who
thravelled to Tokeeo with a letter iv
naturalization TO tn Mickydoo firm tn
Prisidint beginning, Dear Mick got
a brick put through his hat. A little
later number iv Americans in private
life who whit over to rayceive in per-
son tn thanks iv tn imprer FIR what
they'd done, We're FORCED be tn
warmth iv their rayciption to take re-
fuge in tn house iv tn Rooshvan
counsel.
Last month tn Jap'nese sovernnint
wrote to tn Prisidint: Most gracious
an bewilderin' Majesty, Impror iv tn,
Sun. austere an patient Father iv tn,
Stars, we adore We. Had We not but
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The United States Navy Department
has ordered the vessels of the navy
equipped with submarine signaling ap-
naratus as fast as funds are available
for the purpose. The North German
1oyd Steamship Company is equipping
eiob+ more of it's ships. The Hamburg
American. the Cunard, the White Star,
and the French line are all using the
invention. and what with the 1nstaiia-
tion of more and more submarine pelis
~ noiuts on the coasts, the use of the
invention is now as general as the
,,se af wireless biography.
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The narrow escape of a liner from
destruction by a meteor is related nv
Captain Anderson, of the African
Prince, one of the vessels of the Prince
quotes his report. Writing to his prin-
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Each of the four smokestacks OF the
Mauretania Will be as high as a hIteen-
story building and wide enough LOT
four teams abreast to drive through.
All four will suck up from the 192 FUR
naces the fumes of one thousand tons
of coal day.
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Location
Serial Story No. 3.

The linen you wear next to your body
absorbs the discharge of the pores of
Jour skin. On the other hand, your
body Is exposed to all the dangers of
germs that may be brought home from
the laundry in your linen. A laundry
should be kept scrupulously clean and
managed by persons with intelligence
enough to know the necessity OF sani-
tation. One OF the evidences of clean
liness is public exposure With this
end in view we have located a laun-
dry in the heart OF the city, on the
ground floor, where all the washing
and ironing is exposed to public view
from the street at all times.
Visitors are welcome at all times, and
our wash room is as public as our
Office.
New-York tribune., 1907-07-07
CHAPTER XXXIV.
The Race

was lucky for us that the guard had met
i an automobile between the brigaud bar
ricade and Jerez. otherwise we should have
been AZ sea. The road mender near Utrcra had
seen only one car. and that might have been
the Kings; but now We had something To-
hope Tor still; and Dick and resolved 10 get
out OF Jcrez As soon as possible provided we
could learn that the ear We followed had gone
on. II We fingered. the civil guard might after
all think 1t his duty 10 have Us detained and
We did not wish to give him time to change his
mind.
It's pity. though" said Dick. with a
thirsty sigh. Il have always had a Sueakius
fancy that II ever came To Spain | should
stop at erez, the place where the sherry
comes from, and potter about IN huge. cool
bodegaS. sanphng golden wines from giant
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Ordinary Brushing

with ordinary dentifnces does not
properly clean the teeth, because no
denhfrce has hitherto been made
that would destroy the germs Of
decay and free the teeth from fer
menhng food particles.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-10
LOVES WANTS HIS
MAN TO FIGHT
Jack Palmer After the Heavy
weight Championship Belt
for England.
ENGLISHMAN WILL BON
EVERYBODY IN SIGHT
March Looked Upon as the
Lucky Month for Fighters
to Be Born.
Tribune Special Sporting Service.

Tribune Special Sporting Service.
NEW YORK, March 9.-ln 'JnJ
mie' Loves, who brought Jack Palmer
to this country to win the heavyweight
championship of the world. We have
something entirely new in the way of
fight managers. Lowe is one OF those
managers who want their men 10 be-
fighting all the time, and he doesn e
seem TO be particular who his man s oP-,
ponent is, so long as pounds, shillings,
and pence are in sight
Loves says that he brought Palmer TO,
this country because he cannot see any,
one in England whom his man cannot
whip, and this Briton has very good
idea of the game and is about as we'll
versed IN pugiliSm as any OF those who
have visited these shores IN recent
years.
This Jimmie Loves is a fighter
and "a philosopher, and is well posted
on pretty nearly everything worth
knowing. If he wants To emphasize an
argument or point he will quote Shake
speare or some other poet, But when
ii comes TO real fight talk, the good old
English pugology, Loves takes the
front seat
~ know all about the game because
/ used TO fight myself, and can get
out and trim some of these dubs today.
But | love the game, and when SEQ
a youngster that as such a chaunec,
why, like to give him the benefit of
my experience, We 'aven't come ERE
to do any talking We want to fight,
W know, and ii don t make any differ
ence 'ow good the lubber may be, [
ain going TO make any brags about
Palmer. hut | think e as grand
chaunce To beat some Of your clever
kind. Just wait an see I'm IN action,
and YOU viii think e Is blooming
good man.
Loves likes TO manage chap that
has lots of ginger and nerve. An
want TO tell you that Palmer as lots
of narvc. r was boru III March, an
all people born IN that month are the
best kind of fighters. / don t know
what makes 1T SO, y know, but that s
what the old philosophers say, an
ave found it out to be true. Yes, [
was born in March. an although [ am
past forty-sevcn, l M not afraid of any
Of >em.
Loves has no use for man who
won t fight from the tap of the bell.
He has had Palmer on and off since he
was an apprentices, lie brought nm
up as boy, and II Palmer does not
make good here he is going 30 pass him
up. Palmer evidently realizes the
trnth of this declaration, because he has
his return passage in his trunk.
''I'n 1T i'm with brick If he can +
beat some of these pots who are claim
ing championships,
In the course of a conversation rs to
who would be good man for Palmer
in case Jack o 'Brien failed To sign tho
name of Tom Sharkey was mentioned.
"Sharkcy is IA fine fellow and WAS
a good man in his time. But II he
wants to fight. let me ave i'm. e S in
my Glass; said Loves.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-10
WHITE

Schultz are both good players, but can
hardly be classcd Us topDotchcrs in their
positions. Chicago s danger is that
some of the men, like Steiufeldt were
playing ahead of their speed last sea
son.
New York looks only average at pres.
cnt, The pitching STAFF is uncertain,
owing to Mathewson, s slump last sea
son. McGann at first and Strang, who
is destined to cover second, according
TO the "dope, are but average players.
The catching department looks high
class, owing 20 the fact that Bresnahan
is doing regular duty behind the bat.
self that he looks like star once more
this year, and Seymour and Shannon
should make up a fast outfield
Pittsburg figures only superlatiYc in
one position, at shortstop. where Wag
ner holds forth. Outside of that the
team does not figure better than good,
with the exception of Clarke in the
tain, owing TO injuries in the past.
Philadelphia has good team all the
way through, without. any particular
stars. D0olin at short. Doom behind the
bat and Thomas, Titus and Magee in
the outield all ranking as excellent
PLAYERS, and Just short of starsbip.
Cincinnati has one star of the first
magnitude In Higgins at second, but
otherwise the team is made mp Of aver
age players or positions that are un-
certain as To occupants. Brooklyn has
a couple of stars in Jordan and Lumlcy
and some other talent which is above
the ordinary. In fact, Il touch or two
in the right place might make Patsy
Donovan $ team a factor in the race.
Boston does not look TO be strong. with
the exception of first base. whore Fred
Tcnney still ranks high. The pitching
department of that team may also dc.
vclop into a good one this season.
George Dovcy has done a lot of hustling
since lie got the team, but his poor sue
ces in securing players is another Illus
tration of how hard it Is to buy made
ball plaYers Of major league caIibcr.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-10
BALL PLAYERS SHOULD
HELP OWNERS OUT.
Salary Lists Have Been Paid
Under Stress at Times,
With No Relief.
Tribune Special Sporting Service

Tribune Special Sporting Service
NEW YORK. March 9.-From the
tenor of remarks made by owners of
baseball clubs throughout the United
States, 1t is evident that not many of
them Will stand for the exorbitant sal
aries which have been paid under stress
by great many Of the clubs in the
last three years. In number Of in
stances the salary lists have been So
large that II has taken quite all the
gross receipts TO pay them, and at the
end of the season the club owners have
been left with so little on hand that
they were not recompensed by fair
percentage for the risk they took in
promoting the business.
'There is not the slightest inten-
tion or the part of the owners. said
prominent baseball man who was
discussing the salary question, "to give
the players less than they arc entitled
TO. Indeed, the salaries this year are
very generous throughout both leagues,
as | have occasion to know. by reason
of some correspondence which l have
had with other owners, but il does not
seem fair that we should be handicap
ped by obligations at the beginning of
the season which make IT almost out
of the question to render the season
successful If we happen TO be handi-
capped by Ill luck. which we cannot
forescc, There is not player of repu~
tation who has been asked, so far as
my knowledge goes, to play the coming
year for a rccompcnse smaller than
would be given to most men who might
be asked to work double the time TO
earn it. | think the players should
appreciate this fact and begin TO re
member that their prosperity is linked
so closely with ours that they should
fcssional baseball, -
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-10
CREEDON WAS POPULAR.
Kelly Would Not Call Him Great
Fighter but Was Great Favorite.

Tribune Special Sporting Service
SAN FRANCISCO March T.-"Spider'
Kelly says: If YOU were to ask me who
was the greatest fighter Australia sent
TO America I would probably say Peter
Jackson. or / might name Bob Fitzsim
mons. but II you wanted my opinion as
10 the most popular ] would have TO give
the palm to Dan Creedon Dan was un
questicnablv the best liked pugiist that
came from that far-away country. Like
some people. he had the faculty of max
Ing friends wherever he travelled. and
Creedon had them all the way from San
Francisco to New York. Ho could Tell
a good story. sing song, dance Jig.
was never rowdy. always gentleman.
and made Il good front in any kind OF
company Dan was very much on the
style of Jim Corbett. and like Jim. he
was n clever fighter. | wouldn't call
Creedon great fighter, for he wasn't.
Fitzsimmous beat him easily. and vet
he conquered men like Alec Greggins.
Henry Baker. Pat Rcidy and Muldoon
Cyclone. His fighting weight was about
iS5 pounds. and while he lacked the
terrific waIlop OF Fitasmmons / regarded
hiEi n cleverer boxer.
| thing II was about 1892 that Crcedon
landed In this country, He came over
with Tommy Tracey, who was his foster
brother. and a very shifty welierweight
Creedon returned TO Australia few
years ago. He made one fight with Bill
Doherty and lost. Then he retired from
the ring and went into the hotel bust
ness,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-10
PICKING PENNANT
WINNERS EARLY
Careful Study of Lineup Shows
Some Interesting Things
at Present.
CHlCAG0 NATIONALS LOOKED
4 UPON AS SURE WINNERS
Many of the Teams SO Far Have
~ Not Supplied Full
= Strength.
Tribune Special Sporting Service.

irinune Special Sporting Service.
ohlCaGO, March 9.-Picking pen
nant winners at this time Of the year
must be placed in the same category
as selecting Derby winners in future
pook Yet there is a certain method
ot Oh DONG both things which gives one
LUG average lead to at least fair de.
gree OF certainty. Picking the horses
% 'ne simpler of the two, rs each en-
rG may be considered separately. Win
nlng pail clubs, on the other hand. do.
pend more upon team work than indl.
siaual eScellcncy, The latter on the
utneT hand, must be given It's due
"eisht IN n correct analysis of the
PloDaplc outcome Of pcnnant races and
no nine composed Of really Door PLAYERS
league, ( - any
Take line through the outcome Of
;ne Pennant races last season and this
seariy shown. The Chicago White
ogH, world champions, were made iIp
~, =, payers not one OF which could be
classed rs bad. Yet most of them are
not top'notchers In their line. Team
"ork was responsible for the remainder
~, oa inc strength shown by the club. The
Nhlcago National league team, contend
us against the White Sox in the cham
Pionshlp battles. was more correctly a
ao I'M oI stars In It's own league. but
o.s:I nesSer team or stars could be picked
outside OF 1t. There, again the perccn-
asse IN favor of team work shows. In
. ".ner words club must first have the
material, and, second il must make the
proper use of 1T. Hence, consideration
.ne Individual make'ups Of the team,
i; ro" tnat the players have all been
.inca up. is OF interest in working out
races. p0""""'
careful study Of the lineup of the
Sssanls snow some interesting things
oonhe OF the clubs show up strong in
one departments, but are weak in 9th
ti'' ana teams which do not figure M
VI ", certain percentage of cxceIlcucy
aLl aroond can have but little show in
s ne coming races. Some Of the other
.eaihs have elements of uncertainty.
and these are the ones that are liable
" upset calculations. Those that figure
aS pest should finish up IN front. barr
ne pan luck breaks during the season
an anu ueterloratlon Of players naturally
pe looked for in Il team which has
i'dehed It's highest efficiency.
AA Browns Average Up Well.
n the st. Louis teams first,
'tT Drowns look best on a form chart.
4 tIsrages on the race last season show
saat tine Browns had the most efficient
4 Hfur,,cnlng staff in the American league.
t"nen ~ came to catchers, the team was
1u. tair, with the prospects good for an
amnProvemcnt this summer, as Spencer
sau s;,, hickey caught below their average
Il Iiuu v Connor up to his. At first. Tom
\ "unes m ranks as good as any of tho 9th
-ion chase, Second base is uncertain