The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-05-23
.DOYLE'S WATER CURE
HE WORKED 1T ON CHARLr..
HALL RECENTLY.
Latter Thought He had Received a
Fifteen Gallon Keg of Beer But Got
Water Cure" Instead.

Chester Doyle has a water cure. He
tried it on Charles Hall the manager of
II. Hackfeld and Company's Kaiua
| store, the last up trip of the Mauna
| LOa. As soon as the military autholi-
| ties in the Philippines, learn of the
| immense success which accompanied
the Cure" Doyle will probably receive
a commission to go to Samar for it GER
! tainly was a winner
1t was a case of retribution however
with Doyle, for he wanted to break even
| on mild practical joke that Hall had
! played on him some weeks before On
! a recent trip of the Mauna Loa, Chester
! Doyle received a pretentious looking
! band box, labelled "A Kona Hat for
! {. Doyle The prospect of appearing
| in real Kona hat and discarding his
usual accustomed felt, appealed TO
Doyle and he forthwith opened his pre-
| sent with more than usual interest
| First there was layer of paper, then
another layer and then another LAYER.
| until finally Doyle began to fear that
some one had played him an April Fool
joke. He presevered however and in
! the end, was rewarded by finding the
dinkiest looking freak in the way of
| hat, that had ever come to these parts
! 1t was just such a hat as a store keep
er would sell as the latest thing, to his
! worst enemy. Doyle soon found TO
whom he was indebted for the hat, and
| while he was studying how to play even
| he amused himself by presenting the
! hat to number of friends. But Doyle
finally evolved a ''Water Cure" for
| Hall.
On the last trip of the Mauna Loa
to kailua, there was in the freight, a
fifteen gallon keg of nice beer for Char
les Hall. Doyle knew that Hall was
soon to leave the Kaiiua store on a
five months vacation to New York, so
he wanted to have his friend Hall cele-
brate the departure, in a BETTING man
ner.
The key was received with delight 1t
was placed on ice and kept for several
days. After contemplating the keg
with much subdued passion and long
ing Hall finally had to admit that not
even he could drink the fifteen gallons
alone, so he decided to invite sufficient
friends to help him to justice to Doyles
present,
on the evening of the beer luau the
keg was given the station of honor 1t
was covered with ferns and flowers and
draped with an elegant silk Hawaiian
nag. Hall made an address of welcome
to his friends and referred to the gen
erous kindness of his friend Doyle in
sending them the beer 1t would be a
glorious occasion for Kailua, he de-
clared red letter day in the annals OF
kailua entertainments; Come friends
concluded the speaker 'let us gather
around the fount and drink a deep prost
, to our dear friend Chester Doyle. Nav
ms whistle never run dry"
With trembling and eager hands, Hal
drove the faucet into the beer key: ther
ne turned on the spigot and looked foI
the roaming white juice of the hop But
no mop juice came. Nothing but wa
ter cold nmpid water gurgled forth into
the josuing stems showing their way
kegward.
sold again by golly'' howled the
crowd. Hall started to anathematiz,
Doyle and apologize in the sam,
breath, but his guests would not hear of
1t. They had been invited to drink beer
ana beer they proposed to drink. So
loud were their clamours and so parch-
ed their tongues, that Hall had tc
) make good" with bottled beer To the
tune of about 80 plunks
Han came up on the Mauna I,oa tbi,
morning. He told Doyle it was n GOOD
Joke. Doyle loudly protested that the
/ keg mad contained the real stuff when If
lett here so Hall did not know whether
10 think that some body on the steam.
er had been broaching his present. en-
route or not.
Doyle thinks that Hall ought to tal,e
companion along to steer him nast
the men with the gold bricks, for he has
grave fears OF the man from Kailua
ever reaching New York with any thing
more than a hula skirt