The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-05-18
L. A. IT'S KIAwE BEANS.
A Story of Thrift in the School-boy
Days of Public Snowman and
Ex-Minister of State.


While smoking fragrant weed
and inhaling the freshening breezes
which blow down Nuuanu valley,
the following yarn was spun by an
old kamaaina the other evening:
"Oh, yes. 1 have known Lorria
Thurston-the DEVILS partner, you
mean-ever since he was a child.
He always had those weasel. like
traits that Gibson so feared and
hated, He was an swfully mean
boy, but sharp and tricky as you
can make them, and I'll bet he'll
outwit old Nick yet, and that part
nership will be dissolved by mutual
consent. II not, Lorrin will get the
better of'his mate by outlying the
father OF lies. See how he's taking
those dispatches from Washington,
He's been hoodoo to our side all
along. He's so Internally tricky
that he can't even keep track of his
own cleverness, But he kept &C
count OF those kiatOe beans though,
and he'll keep strict account of all
the cash we fools send him, that is,
he'll keep the cash and we may
keep the accounts like Dole with the
Maine fund and the accompanying
incidentals.
1.-THE kia,Ue, or algeroba beansi
Don't you know that yarn7 Well,
III tell you: | don't think it has
been printed, but his old school
mates remember it. In the seven
ties we had an excellent, kind heart
ed principal at PuRahou. He loved
us all, and we all loved him. He
was peculiar but lovingly so. One
Of his hobbies was to teach the boys
habits of thrift and to Undue into
their juvenile minds instincts OF
trade and commerce., and to wisely
employ their time for their own
benefit. He told them that that was
the way to make prosperous men
and good citizens. The Philistines
could not harm the sons OF the good
missionaries if those sons FIRST gath
cred in the coin OF the realm and
the lands Of the heather.
"These words of wisdom sank
deeply into the heart of Lorrin, and
the opportunity soon came to him
to show that he had borne seed a
hundred fold, One day the beloved
principal said to his flock, Children
mine, there is time to get and a
time to lose; time to keep and a
time to cast away. Now these kiawe
trees surrounding our lovely home
are casting away and losing their
beans; now those beans are very
nutritious for our horses and cattle.
Therefore it will be wise for us, and
it is time for us, to get and keep
them, Now, L wish to encourage
habits OF industry and thrift in you,
my young friends, and consequently
l will give you twenty-five cents a
sack for those beans
"'Twas well. The boys jumped
eagerly at the prefer, but there was
only one lazy boy out of the whole
lot, and that was Lorrin. He toiled
not nor did he gather beans, but he
wandered around and about, seek
ing whom he might devour and re-
NAMED mystsriously silent. He
kept mum when the other boys said,
Where are your beans, Lorrin?
cat length the eventful day ar.
rived for the principal to take stock
Of the harvest, and 10! and behold
Lorrin was there with his beans, a
hundred sacksful and more. The
principal was astounded, but Lorrin
kept discreet silence save to say
'Them's my beans and l wants
twenty-five dollars. Monkey up OF
I'll sue YOU He received the
amount but he never betrayed his
secret of how he acquired them. He
had quietly made a corner in kiawe,
with some Hawaiian boys to furnish
him with 100 sacks at ten cents &
sack, and he cleared his pile,
"Such was the first OF many sue
cessful schemes which resulted
Years after. in Lorrin's getting into