The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-11-03
He Threatens to Horse-whip tho News
Don't Let Him Alone.

7N'NA"A VI thO MOVE paper i4iCil IL
Honolulu, who have not said that
his way of conducting services was
the true road to glory. He roared
like 4 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
squall by saying
There is the greatest need of
the sweet end of a 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 good stout
cowhide can, and the Rev. H. e.
Rowland is the man to use it if ne
cessary. l am not John L. Sulli-
van, nor am | professional pu-
gilist, but | can-and withstand
up to one, and possibly two, news
paper men. I cowhided a reporter
in Boston once, and I 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
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 a 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 I read any minds in Homo |
lulu. Thank God for that. They |
are too small for anyone to try and |
read. l am 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. / also read
Dy psychometry, and if any one of
you wish to know anything about
1 friend or an acquaintance bring
ne lock of their hair or an old
lirty stocking and dollar,
md I'll tell you what You
want to know. l am not the
,nly spiritualist that has been
here. John Slater, grand me-
lium and a magnificent spiritual
st has been here, and you all know
him.
ga day or two after 1 landed
lere, good old preacher said to
ne, with his hands on my
houlders, Mr.. Rowland, it would
lave been better if you had not
your horse and buggy with
-ou. People here talk so much I
hould say they did. l hate sissies.
II have been very near hell and
lave smelt the birthstone several
lines, and | can smell it here. l
melt it as the steamer came into
he harbor, and told many of the
passengers so. This town will be
Iotter than a lava bed for some
'eople if they don't shut up.
SIN the next three or four months
here is going to be a terrible time
n these islands, and I hope I won't
e here. If anyone thinks 1 can't
ct out of them here is my purse
nd you can all examine it." How
e reconciled this statement with
hat he was reported as saying at
ne of his other meetings, that she :
id not know how he was going to
ct out of the country" he only
nows, unless his palm reading and
sychrometric fakes have paid bet ,
,r than is usual with that kind of
eople. !
A few other Howlandisms follow. T
hese were said before he started
/ to threaten cowhiding.
"You people have had consider