The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-24
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The Vessel Held in Quarantine at San Francisco
Coast Metropolis Keeps Mum---personaI
Notes of Local interest.

kansas was the author, but it was in
Itroduced by Senator Mitchell of Oregon
| After the passage of the resolution
| Senator Frye, President Protein of the
Senate, named these members for The
Hawaiian junket: Mitchell of Oregon
Foster of Washington, Burton OF Kan
sas, Cockrell of Missouri and Black
burn of Kentucky. Since the adjourn
| ment OF Congress it has appeared that
at least two Of the five members do not
wish to make the trip, and two others
are, at the best. Indifferent. They say
| there is no necessity for the proposed
investigation The expenses are 70 be
paid out of the contingent fund of the
Senate
CASTOR BoiSse of Honolulu whose
narrow escape from death by typhoid
told of fortnight ago, will return 20
Honolulu on the steamship Ventura,
which sails from here on July "a
Boise has gained forty-eight pounds
since he began to convalesce, and is
now stouter and stronger than ever in
his life. He felt keenly the defeat of
the Healanis by the Myrtles, as he is
an old Healanite and intimate with all
the crew. BOSSES adventure at the
French Hospital with the nurse AL
phonse Diderot, which afforded the lat
ter chance TO make the retort cour-
teous, After me, your dear Alphonse,''
has had wide publicity. The newspa-
perS of the Mainland have taken it up
as a startling proof that truth is
stranger than fiction, and that the
things one reads of in the funny pa
pers are really founded on fact. The
Examiner. which originated the deadly
Alphonse-Gaston' farce tragedy, was
highly elated at the coming together of
a living Castor and Alphonse, and if
it could have procured a photograph of
Mr.. Boisse. it would have edited it's
readers with a series of pictures in
CASTOR and Alphonse style, taken from
life, and displaying Boisse in his
nightie, chasing the Mortified Alphonse
Diderot. Fortunately Boisse was spar
ed this iniquity and will not know UNI
til he reads this in the Advertiser how
close he came to decorating the yellow
Journals pages.
The newly formed Hawaiian Society
of Manila has over a score of mem
bers. Few of them are natives of Ha-
wall, for it is not requisite for mem
bership in the society that one was
born in the Islands. but only that one |
must have lived in Hawaii long enough !
to have learned to love the land OF
palms and poesy. In fine, one must
is breathed into the very heart of the !
man or woman who spends a year or
more in them, and who has a soul for
sentimental sights and sweet sounds.
Needless to say among the leading
members of the Hawaiian Society are
those two exiles from Honolulu whose
brains and pens are now directing
largely the trend of political thought
In the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Marshall
and ZiegenfusS the Fat. Marshall has
risen to higher journalistic flights than
Zieg.. but then he has less embonpoint
TO carry his empyrean soarings. and
has that larger breadth of wings which |
comes with the Jail experiences he has
had in Honolulu and Manila. He has
gained a philosophy of life and a sheer
contempt for petty judges and their
Judgment which mark him as true
and brave pennan.
Zieg. has not yet invaded the penlten-
.ial places, though his paper. the
A merican, mas scored the civil authori-
lies scathingly and has invited the ha-
red of the corrupt who fear the light
Of publicity. 1 understand that the
Volcano is again extinct, or rather
until its chief stoker, Mar
shall. has gained the golden fuel which
runs journalistic Mont Pelees in the
Mrs George Fletcher is at home