The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-23

eAClC 10 q Representation OF ln6 t1dWalI-
an coat of arms, and it still seems good
enough for the Justices l believe there
used to be one Ike II on the wall in the
Hilo court house, but it was blotted out
SO that the oio-tlme royalistS up there
wouldn't think that the monarchy still
lived. Well, when Little got the prize
the first thing he did was to have his
photograph taken. tear out the offices
and the court house generally and build
railing SO as TO exclude ex-interpreters.
When the dust had about settled, Little
discovered the outline of the coat of arms
under the kalSomine On the walls. That
was too much for him. SO he command
ed the scene painter of stranded show
to appear before him and show cause
why he should not put dab ON that
wall that would put the emblem of Ka-
mehameha into oblivion. The scene
painter said he couldn't show anything,
not even cause, and that was easier to
get than a square meal I don't know
how true it is, but there's rumor that
he went to one of the stores and bought
IA lot of ready-mixed paints and started
in"
You can't tell just what the picture
represents; there's a woman in the fore
ground gowned in a lavender mumu,
whose head, if the perspective is correct,
is several hundred feet above the sup
pressed peak of Ell Captain. Really, a
good deal is left to the Imagination, and
I'm not sure whether the blind-eyed god
,dess is standing in the center of Yosem-
lite valley or whether she is the floor in
"a cold storage room; the mountains may
be blocks of manufactured ice for all 1
know. They are going to run the Kinau
to Hilo on cheap excursions, so people
from Honolulu can see it. The picture
is great, even to the size, and the painter
got $50 for the job-that is, he has an
order on the Government for it. hear
he did it by the day and was painting
against time. No, it is not copyrighted.
Il am going to ask the High Sheriff to
send up Bachelor to test the scales; Oh
the dead, L think they weigh one-sided.
Judge Little got warm because the
juries returned promptly with a verdict
of acquittal and threatened to put them
in jail if they did not de better. One of
the men told me before 1 left that the
reason they came back into the court
room SO soon after leaving was to get
another view of the stage curtain.
One of the funniest bits in the term
was the attempt of old man Lyman to
play the part of "Puddenhead Wilson ~
Judge Little rather liked the idea, and
wanted to give lantern slide show; l
believe he invited a number of lady
friends to the exhibition, but the jury
passed him up, and all bets were de-
,clared off. The case in question was one
in which a Japanese was charged with
forging bill of sale for a saddle, valued
at 49, Eidocq Lyman, it is said, found
a thumb-mark on the instrument and
Immediately asked the Jap for a dupli-
cate and when he got it, it was about
half-done, just the end of the thumb.
and the Sheriff tried to connect one with
the other, though they We're as dissimi-
lar Humphreys and Little in either
brains or appearance. 1t was after the
jury turned the Sheriff down on this
proposition that Judge Little threatened
to put the jury in jail The Jap was ac-
quilted on the charge. The night before
We left Hilo there was an exhibition of
the slides; / guess he thought that as
long as 1t was holiday he would exer-
else his prerogative and have a show,
anyhow. Andrews was not invited be-
cause there was a little doubt about the
effect his whiskers would have; the ex-
pert was afraid that the lime-fght might
strike them and the glow would inter
fere with the exhibition, but 1 don't be-
lieye that was the cause.
1 If Hilo had a new Judge, new post
master some one who knew when the
mails would arrive and depart, 1 guess
she would be all right for real, but
don't know-it rains in Hilo a good deal
] But, joking aside, Hilo is growing and
improving and the moss which some peo-
PIE Ten me gre" Oh tne olu TesiuehtS Il
fast disappearing-some of them are
dead. The hotel is all right under the
new manager, who. is a winning card
The new grill room is a dream, and the
Ladies Afternoon Cinch Club is an in
novation. because gossip is not allowed
Brother Murphy will not have such a
field of work in Hilo-what they want
up there is a reformed gambler who will
preach of the iniquities of penny ante
and side bets on anything under a king
full, So YODLE.