The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-04-22
LOthari0 aud Ka-ha -lla.

MIR. EDITOR: In your issue OF
18th inst. is noticed cOmmunica-
ton from Maui signed "Ka-ha-ha,"
in which this irate writer hauls
poor, innocent 'sLothario" over the
Goals for writing a naughty "carp-
ing" article on the Board of Educa-
ton, the Postmaster at Makawao,
etc.
This sudden attack nearly paral-
lied your guileless swain cloth
ario," who is conscious of no more
heinous crime than scribbling a
very inoffensive "sassiety" report
of recent successful literary en-
tertainment at Kahului, in which
no mention whatever was made of
such dangerous, high political sub
iects as those above mentioned.
Will Mr.. "Ka-ha-ha," or maybe
Ka hu-hu, would be better pscu-
donym for him-please read the
article in question, and then have
the extreme kindness to peruse
another article, also contained in a
late issue of the Bulletin, which did
contain some very stringent re-
marks on the subjects alluded to in
his "overhauling," and he will find
two widely different signatures af-
fixed to the two articles. cloth
ario, though not claiming to be
such an accomplished 'sliterateur, y
as "Ka-ha-ha" evidently considers
himself, still has enough sense of
the 'seternai fitness of things" not
to mix love with politics in the way
'Ka-ha-ha" charges him with do
ing, and moreover, he does not rush
into print with an attack upon
anonymous writer's without having
ascertained that he has got hold OF
the right party and the right ar
ticle. In conclusion he begs to say
that, amusing enough, his political
sympathies are enlisted ON precisely
the same side as those of Ka-ha-ha,
as evinced in the latter's article
but he rarely writes on political
questions, and least of all under the
signature of LOTHARlO.
Maui Matters.
Mr.. EDITOR: In the Bulletin
issued on the 9th is a correspon-
dent, signing himself "Observer, u
complaining about the postmasters,
but the special target for his darts
is Mr.. J. Anderson at Makawao
Oh dear, what a crying injustice
not to give that post office, with it's
splendid pay of $40 per month to
.Observer !" He drops the subject
quickly, however, perhaps because
he has an idea about the smallness
of the salary attached to it, and
then delivers long and meant-to.
be-weighty argument against the
present mode of engaging teachers
He wants to be one for himself
probably, and l think he will make
a first-class teacher. His style is
eloquent, his sentences short and
to the point. If he is not made a
teacher or rather a principal right
away, a petition ought to be sent
in his behalf to the Beard of Edu-
cation. Certainly the following
sentence ought to qualify him:
{" why the teacher
resigns, and his place is filled
with another Importation, who
stands as helpless as his prede-
cessor not understand him and of
whose in houseful of children
who do language, intellect and
manners he is as ignorant, as he is
of most other things"
observer" has evidently given
the subject his most earnest atten-
ton, as shown in the specimen
above.
I am very much afraid the Board
OF Education will be just as 'auto-
cratic" as the Postmaster-General.
Too bad that the last named gentle
man don't replace the present post
master in Wailuku with somebody
else-'sObserver" for one! 1t would
certainly please the gentlemen with
the coquet moustache and pincenez,
who has to long and patiently been
waiting for fat fob" We Wal
luku people are satisfied with it as
it is, and are truly thankful for all
the improvements in the mail SER
vice that have been made lately. It
is 'spro bono publico" to have an
'sautocratic" Postmaster General
now-a-days that's sure.
If"Observer" really wants pub
lie improvements, why don't he
exert his influence @ to have a
public school started at Spreckels-
vile. where probably over one
hundred children of different ma
tionalities grow up as ignorant as
II they were living in Central
African Accomplish that, Mr.. COB
server" and many will thank you
for it.
Wailuku. A nril TX 1900