Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-10-19
CURIOUS CRINKLES
BY LANAI LOUNGER.

: BY LANAI LOUNGER. n
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Cable and canal would be welcome
enough one at dime. II It were not
such long time.
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Someone has complained recently.
that people fail to recognize the mantle
Of greatness until II becomes a shroud.
This may not be bad sign. If 1t indi-
cate reluctance to Judge unfinished
work. Depravity is shown when recog-
milton Of the mantle becomes evident
through efforts to steal II from its
rightful possessor.
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As II there were not enough unsight-
ly and dangerous street distractions
already. a local paper advocates a null
tiplicity OF hitching posts. A hamper
weight attached to a halter carried In
every driving rig would be good regu-
lation II horses ought to be allowed
left hitched In the streets at all. Rings
set In the curb would be civilized. but
more hitching posts--a whipping post
should be erected for the author OF
such q proposition.
! When sail you would take In yacht.
by a sailor at first be you tacht.
Else II squalls hit the craft
You'll he sorry you laft
At my caution and set II at nacht.
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! Secretary Cooper boasts that he
beat the fast mail overland BY a day.
! He should remember the old saying
that it's no sign Of gentleman to
rish.
| If runaway horses. instead OF being
caught by champions in that line. could
be steered into the bay, the evil would
soon cure itself.
Shamrock II lost the race by time
allowance calculated on her excessive
sail area. That's what she got by cot
toning too muchs with the weather.
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herreshoff knows the business oil
boat building. In the victory Of the
Columbia there was hull lot due t.
the model.
Advocates Of determination of an,
class Of evil men. as a precaution OF
benalf of social order and peace
should remember the parable Of tn,
wheat and the tares. In all the field,
; o. civilization there Is no more pre-
cious crop than freedom Of speech. bu
|, clutching It's roots are the suckers o
licentious weeds. Let the wheat ripeI
to nourish patriots and leave tn,
: weeds, root and branch, to twentieth
century science for transmutation int
paper pulp as the raw material of vel
. lew jousnalism refined into innocuOu.
desuetude.
Pedestrians ought to keep to on,
side of the street. The common prac
tice OF walking across the street 4
, menace to the Japanese hackdriv
ing industry. 1t jars carriage I,
run over n person.
This column had passed irrevoca;;
, into the hands OF the printers las
week before the news of the interns
tional yacht race had been received
Otherwise the remark migi.. have beef
ventured that there was another sill
between the cup and the lip to note
As. however. two contemporary para
graphlsts had predicted the pOssibilit!
OF such an occurrence. an observation
OF that sort might not be credited viii
originality.
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An account given in the Sunda
Volcano OF a coal mine that has beel
! burning for twenty years reminds tn
writer OF this paragraph mat he wall
n ed in the galleries of the same mine
:, a thousand feet benea ., the surface @
the ground, only two years before I'll
explosion that caused the fire. II wa
as narrow an escape as Robert Wilco
: had of being defeated when he ran tn
election for Delegate to Congress.