The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-07

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reproach himself WITH he feels the
day has come for him to end career
of uninterrupted success, lest any un-
toward happening, such as is always
possible In royal journeys, mar it at
its close
With M. Paoli on board, every royal
train in France has always run smooth
ly, and with NJ. Paoli in discreet prox-
unity, every royal parsonage visit to
France has always passed off without
a hitch. The story is told that when
the boy Sipido fred at King Edward
(then Prince of Wales) in the Nord
railway station at Brussels, the bullet
luckily imbedding itself in the cushions
of the carriage without touching the
prince, the latter said, with a smile,
All, if Paoli had been there that pis-
tol would never have gone off. The
boy would have been caught before
he had had time to use it,
That no "incident ever happened
to a monarch while under NJ Paoli s
unobtrusive but vigilant care is the
legitimate pride of the Especial com
missary detached from the general safe
ty department, to give him his Of
fetal title.
Success. was not attained without un.
ceasing activity. For instance, M. Pa
oil had to escort the King of Greece
from Aix-les- Bains to Calais; the King
of Spain from Kendaye, the Spanish
frontier station. to the German from
tier, and the King of Belgians from
the Belgian frontier to his villa on the
Riviera, all in one week, and such fly
ing excursions over the country in a
minimum of time were frequent.
At seventy-four NJ. Paoh feels no
longer quite equal to such duties. The
journeys themselves would have been
nothing, but the eternal vigilance,
which is the price of the safety of
kings, was wearing, and if the royal
personages sllites could sleep in their
cars, NJ Paoli could not.
Keeps His Anecdotes.
The protector of kings could tell
anecdotes for week, but he keeps
most of them for his proposed memoirs,
besides those which he keeps to him.
self. and he prefers to show his ex-
traordinary collection of ordersa scarf
pins and watches. One of the latter
was given to him by King Edward
when he was Prince of Wales. Among
the decorations which he most prizes
is the Royal Victorian Order, which
Queen Victoria, when she created it,
sent to him personally, with an auto
graph note. His autographs are innu-
merable, and most Of the sovereigns
over whom he has watched write to
him a word Of good wishes at Christ
mas or the New Year.
NJ. Paoli has escorted exotic as well
as European potentates and tells with
endowment a story of the King of Siam,
who, when NJ. Paoli was presented to
him as the official who was to watch
over his safety, looked aghast at the
slight and spare little old gentleman III
a frock coat and exclaimed: Where
are your weapons2'
Hero in Distress.
A pathetic letter has reached Paris
from Bentleyville, Pa, from the miner,
Henry Nenv, who led thirteen OF his
comrades out of the burning Courrieres
mine to safety after thirteen days.
Neny. upon his bed in the hospital.
was given the Cross of the Legion OF
Honor. set in brilfiants. He has been
obliged to pawn it now for $75 to send
money home to his children. When he
recovered his health, Neny, who had
been promised that his future should
never trouble him, was given bu-
reau de tabae,'' in which, after the
first excitement on the catastrophe had
died out, he failed to make living.
He gave up and went to the United
States. From Bentleyville he writes
that $40 in fortnight is the most he
can earn. He has been there year,
and knows a little English now; but
he is weary of existence and would
end it. he writes, were it not for his
children. Henry Neny is an educated
man and a clever one. 1t seems cruel
shame that he should suffer poverty
now after the terrible ordeal he I'M
derwent in the coal mine at Courrieres,
where his courage undoubtedly saved
thirteen lives besides his own.
Woman a Clever Swindler.
An extraordinary woman, whose real
name is Jeanne Marguerite Privat, but
who calls herself the 'C0mtesse An
clement has been tried and SEN
fenced for one case in wonderful
career of swindling at Montpelier.
{ sThe Comtesse looks something like
Nine. Therese Humbert. She is hand
some Southerner of Al, and for the last
three years has lived on the credullty
of the good people of Montpelier and
the neighborhood.
She arrived there in 1906 with two
a nurse and a governess, and
took rooms at the principal hotel, for
which she paid over $40 day. She
made a number of friends there, and
she made many debts as well-so many
that when her creditors at last took
action she was found to owe the pro-
prietor of the Hotel Metropole sum
of $4,000. $500 to the cure of the
church she attended, $1,000 to her book
seller and something like $4,000 to
thirty other people. Now that she has
been tried and sentenced for fraud, the
q Comtesse d Anglemont proves to
have done exactly the same thing on
several other occasions. Traces OF her
under different names have been found
in fifteen provincial towns in France,
and she was known unfavorably in Rus
STA.
Red Tape in Paris.
An extraordinary case of legal red
tape occurred the other day in Paris.
4 man whose first offense it was was
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