Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-01-19
FOR SATURDAY Sadness
BY DIOGENES.

Meriment is not always silly, nor
Stiffness always merry.
Where there's will there's way, Is
another old saw that sometimes fails
to cut viii. Kickabus lives at Kalihi,
but finds no way to get out there safely
since the Rapid Transit people have
torn up the roads.
Colonel Norris said the day he came
to town that he wanted to get China
man to steal dog Cor him, because 4
Chinaman could get out of II so grace
fully If caught. A white man stealing
dog would only need to be accused
to betray guilt at once. Whereas a
Chinaman would have story ready
to tell, with impassive face. OF getting
the dog from man out Manoa to take
to man at Palama.
When o man libels a ship he stands
to get damages. but when an editor
libels a person the editor is the one to
pay damages. What an unfair thing is
law,
An English bishop has forbidden the
use of pins in the collars OF ladies at
confirmation because they lacerate him
in the laying on of hands. Just like q
man. If the bishop had consulted his
wife he would at least have given the
fair candidate the option of safety pins.
Richly improved homesteads of the
wealthy in squald city are like Jewels
in a pigs snout.
"Ninety-nine in a hundred of Hawa-
iians. Chinese and Japanese" said a
gentleman who got on Beretanil
street car with the word transfer" to
the driver, do not know that they are
entitled to transfers and pay two fares
when they should pay only one. That
is why the company does not Issue
transfer tickets" For this and other
abuses Of the company's privileges, to-
gether with neglect OF rules Of COOL
order on the cars. successive govern
ment officials are to blame, who have
been and are empowered under the
companys franchise to regulate the
concern in the interest Of the public
but who seemingly have never cared
for the public in the matter.
II the people cannot tax themselves
to suit themselves. they are ready for
government on the Oriental plan, in
which the taxes are farmed out to set
of scoundrels to levy and collect pretty
much as they please.
Contemporaries are again warning
us not to put all our eggs In one bas-
ket. That's right. At the current price
of eggs, anyone having a dozen saved
up ought to pack them in six baskets
anu blS'i iDNl' tHtIi III tht boN
eminent and bank vaults.
The Filipinos have the Americanisrn
Of the Philippine Commission to thank
for the fact that Municipal Government
has beaten the Constitution in the race
following the flag to their country.
There Is more need of an official
lookout at Fort and King streets than
at Diamond Head, II life and limb are
held in higher regard than maritime
intelligence by a majority of the people
Of Honolulu.
Diagnostic rather than descriptive
talent is what the Board of Health likes
to see in visitors TO Molokai.
A local paper talks of diversified in
dustries as a new topic. Bless its in
nocent heart, the Honolulu press never
let up on that subject for twenty years,
when 1t had to stop the agitation be-
cause half the population was brought
| face to face with financial ruin from
going into enterprises other than sugar
| production. At the same time diversi-
fed products are gradually forging
their way to success. 1t Is the same old
story as that of sugar-the mistakes of