The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-11-07
He Threatens to Horse-whip The News
paper Men or Honolulu if They
Don't Let Him Alone.

ened last evening, at his palm
reading prayer meeting, to cowhide
several of the newspaper men in
Honolulu, who have not said that
his way of conducting services was
the true road to glory. He roared
like bull of Bashan and the audi
ence was delighted with his actions.
He certainly was as amusing as
any theatrical performance, and
the coming minstrel organization
could do worse than to engage him
for the afterpiece.
The first part of his service was
conducted in a respectable way
and the many people who had come
to hear him, simply because they
expected a good time, were SEEM
ingly doomed to disappointment.
But when he was about halfway
through his discourse he suddenly
ran down the center aisle and,
standing in the back part of the
room. commenced TRADE against
the newspapers and the newspaper
reporters. He opened this sudden
sguall by saying;
There is the greatest need of
the sweet end of cowhide for
some of these newspaper men in
Honolulu, and if they don't keep
still about me I'll give it to them.
Silver and gold cannot stop their
mouths, perhaps, but a good stout
cowhide can, and the Rev. H. E.
Rowland is the man to use it if ne
cessary. 1 am not John L. Sulli-
van, nor am l a professional pu-
gilist, but / can-and Withstand
up to one, and possibly two, news
paper men. cowhided a reporter
in Boston once, and 1 can do it
again. There are two of those
things-yes, t-h-i-n-g-s-in this
hall tonight, and if either of them
wish to make anything of my re-
marks, let him come up here"
But the reverend's gauntlet fell to
the ground, for no one was quite as
belligerant as he.
"Those Honolulu newspapers
shall take back what they have
said about me before they are two
months older. My brother and l
have come here for rest and recre-
alton, and when we get good and
ready, we will go.
"The majority of you people who
are here tonight, have been at
tracted by the free advertising that
I have received. My notices have
not cost me cent, and of course
that has delighted me. But they
will pay for it soon. Wait till the
tide turns, and see what a dire
destruction will overtake those who
have ridiculed me.
II am not a mind reader, nor
have ] read any minds in Homo
lulu. Thank God for that. They
are too small for anyone to try and
read. l am a palmist and an
astrologer, and both are sciences,
and if the ignorant people of Homo
lulu haven't got sense enough to
know it they had better not say so
in black and white. I also read
by psychometry, and if any one of
you wish to know anything about
a friend or an acquaintance bring
me a lock of their hair or an old
dirty stocking and dollar,
and I'll tell you what you
want to know. l am not the
only spiritualist that has been
here. John Slater, a grand me-
dunn and a magnificent spiritual
ist has been here, and you all know
him.
"a day or two after 1 landed
here, good old preacher said to
me, with his hands on my
shoulders, Mr.. Rowland, it would
have been better if you had not
brought your horse and buggy with
you. People here talk so much 1
should say they did. l hate sissies.
Il have been very near hell and
have smelt the birthstone several
times, and l can smell it here.
smelt It as the steamer came into
the harbor, and told many of the
so. This town will be
hotter than a lava bed for some
people if they don't shut up.
in the next three or four months
there is going to be terrible time
in these islands, and l hope I won't
be here. If anyone thinks 1 can't
get out of them here is my purse
and you can all examine it" How
he reconciled this statement with